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I have been studying the #Antikythera Mechanism—the ancient Greek #computer—for many years. More recently, I started building mechanical #moon phase calculators based on the #mathematics and #astronomy of #antiquity. Now the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten has published the paper about my projects.
#archaeology #history #digitalhumanities
From Antiquity to 3D Modeling: The Moon Machine : 7th International Conference on Creative\Media/Technologies (IConCMT), 2025
Observing the lunar cycles has been relevant to humankind for millennia, and already in ancient Babylon their fundamental laws were discovered: 19 solar years correspond to almost exactly 235 synodic lunar months or full cycles of moon phases.phaidra.ustp.at
