ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM

The new solid models

With the new results and the latest gearing diagram from the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project, new models are being built by other researchers. The results of the AMRP have been integrated into at least three models, made by Michael Wright, Dionysios Kriaris, Massimo Vicentini and Tatjana van Vark.

The model constructed and updated by Michael Wright in London integrates the findings of the AMRP. Michael Wright says of his model: "The model is based on my own research, but has been slightly altered to agree with the findings of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project. My mechanism includes the five planets known to antiquity, and the previous existence of a (now lost) planetary display appears to be supported by the newly-discovered inscriptions."

Dionysis Kriaris, in Greece, has built a model based on the new findings, which is now in display at the Children Museum of Manhattan, and forms part of the "Gods, Myths and Mortals" exhibition.

A model from Italy was built by Massimo Vicentini; Vicentini worked with the new results from the AMRP, but his model also departs from the AMRP model. It reflects a personal view with his own added features, based on an earlier model by Allan Bromley.The most recent model is extremely impressive, and was made as an "essence of" the Antikythera Mechanism, by Tatjana van Vark

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