With Java animations by Bill Casselman

References

• Allan Bromley, Notes on the Antikythera Mechanism, Centaurus 29 (1986) pp. 5-27. Bromley proposes a plausible gearing plan, different in some important details from Price's. The differences do not involve either of the gear assemblys examined here.
• Derek de Solla Price, Gears from the Greeks - The Antikythera Mechanism, A Calendar Computer from ca. 80 B.C., Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 64, part 7 1974
• Derek de Solla Price, An Ancient Greek Computer, Scientific American June 1959 pp. 60-67
• C. D. Olds, Continued Fractions, Random House (New Mathematical Library) New York 1963. (The result quoted is Theorem 3.8 on p. 74).
• E. C. Zeeman, Gears from the Greeks, Proceedings of the Royal Institution (G.B.) 58 (1986) 137-156

• 1. The history of the Mechanism

• 2. Pictures of a Mechanism

• 3. The Sun-Moon Assembly

• 4. Gear ratios and continued fractions

• References