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Record W2729850791 · doi:10.1558/jmea.32915

Antikythera Mechanism

2017· article· en· W2729850791 on OpenAlex
Nicholas David

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Mediterranean Archaeology · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicHistorical Astronomy and Related Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
FundersUniversity of Pennsylvania
KeywordsNothingMechanism (biology)Period (music)HistoryAncient historyArchaeologyArtPhilosophy

Abstract

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Recent interpretive analysis of the astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera mechanism (AKM), the oldest geared instrument in the world, reveals that the astronomy it embodies is of the third to second century bc. The device has no known precursor and is more complicated than any surviving mechanism from the following millennium. Its apparent uniqueness stems from a failure to embed the device in the society, economy and technology of its time. After summarizing the circumstances of its recovery from a shipwreck in 1900–1901, subsequent excavations and the curation and analyses of associated materials through the 1950s, I turn to recent research. Studies of coins and ceramics from the wreck indicate that the freighter transporting the AKM foundered at some point between 70 and 50 bc. Meanwhile analyses of inscriptions on the device and other evidence link it to the Corinthian sphere of influence and suggest a date between 129 and 75 bc. Review of the literary and material history of astronomical devices and geared machinery of the period 100 bc–500 ad reveals relatives, but nothing comparable to the AKM in its range of functions. Yet it is not a Machina ex Deo. Archaeologists are encouraged to recover and analyze more evidence of the tradition it undoubtedly represents. Intensive research into the mode of production and the social, economic, technical and material aspects of the bronze and brass industries of the first millennia bc and ad is required.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.376
Threshold uncertainty score0.539

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.271
Teacher spread0.253 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it