Amabile, Alessandro (2023) A new look at the Antikythera Mechanism. [Tesi di dottorato]
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| Item Type: | Tesi di dottorato |
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| Resource language: | English |
| Title: | A new look at the Antikythera Mechanism |
| Creators: | Creators Email Amabile, Alessandro alessandro.amabile@unina.it |
| Date: | 10 March 2023 |
| Number of Pages: | 136 |
| Institution: | Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II |
| Department: | Fisica |
| Dottorato: | Fisica |
| Ciclo di dottorato: | 35 |
| Coordinatore del Corso di dottorato: | nome email Canale, Vincenzo vincenzo.canale@unina.it |
| Tutor: | nome email Covone, Giovanni UNSPECIFIED Figari, Rodolfo UNSPECIFIED |
| Date: | 10 March 2023 |
| Number of Pages: | 136 |
| Keywords: | Antikythera Mechanism; celestial mechanics; mechanical astronomy; Archimedes; Hipparchus; sphere-making; William Rowan Hamilton; quaternions |
| Settori scientifico-disciplinari del MIUR: | Area 02 - Scienze fisiche > FIS/05 - Astronomia e astrofisica Area 02 - Scienze fisiche > FIS/08 - Didattica e storia della fisica Area 11 - Scienze storiche, filosofiche, pedagogiche e psicologiche > M-STO/05 - Storia della scienza e delle tecniche Area 01 - Scienze matematiche e informatiche > MAT/07 - Fisica matematica |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Mar 2023 11:13 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Apr 2025 13:13 |
| URI: | http://www.fedoa.unina.it/id/eprint/15033 |
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In this dissertation I propose a new interpretation of the mechanical-astronomical computer known as Antikythera Mechanism (II cent. BC). The key idea is that its design was based οn the law of the circular hodograph, a geometrical picture of the inverse-square law found by William Rowan Hamilton in 1846. If the reconstruction here proposed is accepted, the Antikythera Mechanism becomes evidence that a mechanical-astronomical theory of gravity was developed in Hellenistic times.
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