< 2000

D.J. de Solla Price, Clockwork before the Clock, Horological Journal 97 (1955) 811-813. D.J. de Solla Price, Clockwork before the Clock, Horological Journal 98 (1956) 31-34

An Ancient Greek Computer, Derek J. de Solla Price, SciAm June 1959.

“Bergeron on Flute-Making”, Galpin Society Journal , XXIX (1976), pp. 26 – 34.

“Gears from the Byzantines: a portable sundial with calendrical gearing”, Annals of Science , 42 (1985), pp. 87 – 138. (jointly with J.V. Field.)

“Rational and Irrational Reconstruction: the London sundial-calendar and the early history of geared mechanisms”, History of Technology , 12 (1990), pp. 65 – 102.

“Simple X-ray Tomography and the Antikythera Mechanism”, PACT (Révue du groupe européen d'études pour les techniques physiques, chimiques, biologiques et mathématiques appliquées à l'archéologie or Journal of the European Study Group on Physical, Chemical, Biological and Mathematical Techniques Applied to Archaeology) , vol.45 (1995), pp. 531 – 543. (jointly with A.G. Bromley and H. Magou.)

Rob S. Rice : The Antikythera Mechanism, Physical and Intellectual Salvage from the 1st Century B.C. 1995

D.J. de Solla Price, On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices and Compass, United States National Museum Bulletin 218, Washington D.C. 1959.

D.J. de Solla Price, An Ancient Greek Computer, Scientific American 200 (1959) 60-67.

D.J. de Solla Price, Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera Mechanism - A Calendar Computer from ca. 80 B.C., TransactAmPhilosSoc 64.7 (1974) 5-70, reprinted as a monograph by the Science History Publications, New York 1975.

M.Τ. Wright, An Apparatus for Linear Tomography of the Antikythera Mechanism, Working notes, Science Museum, London 1990.

M.T. Wright - A.G. Bromley - H. Magou, Simple X-Ray Tomography and the Antikythera Mechanism, Proceedings of the Second Conference of Archaeometry in South Eastern Europe in Delphi, 19-21 April 1991, PACT 45 (1995) 531-543.

M. Wright - A.G. Bromley, Current Work on the Antikythera Mechanism, Proceedings of the Conference on Ancient Greek Technology, Thessaloniki 1997, 19-25. G.J.

Toomer, Ptolemy's Almagest, Princeton 1998. Μ. Edmunds - Ρ. Morgan, The Antikythera Mechanism: Still a Μystery of Greek Αstronomy?, Astronomy and Geophysics 41.6 (2000) 10-17.


“On the Lift Pump”, History of Technology , 18 (1996), pp. 13 – 37.
“Londra: il Science Museum e sua collezione di macchine tessili (The Science Museum, London, and its collection of textile machinery)”, Museoscienza , no.10, year VI (June 1997), pp.14 – 19 & 46, 47.

“Current Work on the Antikythera Mechanism”, Proc. Conf. Αρχαία Ελληνική Τεχνολογία ( Ancient Greek Technology ), Thessaloniki, 4 – 7 September 1997, pp. 19 – 25. (jointly with A.G. Bromley - the paper is printed in English with a summary in Greek).

The Water Clock in the Tower of the Winds, Joseph V. Noble; Derek J. de Solla Price, American Journal of Archaeology, Oct., 1968.

“Simple X-ray Tomography and the Antikythera Mechanism”, PACT (Révue du groupe européen d'études pour les techniques physiques, chimiques, biologiques et mathématiques appliquées à l'archéologie or Journal of the European Study Group on Physical, Chemical, Biological and Mathematical Techniques Applied to Archaeology) , vol.45 (1995), pp. 531 – 543. (jointly with A.G. Bromley and H. Magou.)

"Simple X-ray Tomography and the Antikythera Mechanism", PACT (Révue du groupe européen d'études pour les techniques physiques, chimiques, biologiques et mathématiques appliquées à l'archéologie or Journal of the European Study Group on Physical, Chemical, Biological and Mathematical Techniques Applied to Archaeology), vol.45 (1995), pp. 531 – 543. (The issue, entitled Archaeometry in South-Eastern Europe, was devoted to the proceedings of the 2nd. Conference under that title, held in Delphi, 19th – 21st April, 1991.)
(jointly with A.G. Bromley and H. Magou.)

“Current Work on the Antikythera Mechanism”, Proc. Conf. Αρχαια Ελληνικ? τεχνολογια ( Ancient Greek Technology ), Thessaloniki, 4 – 7 September 1997, pp. 19 – 25.

“On the Lift Pump”, History of Technology , 18 (1996), pp. 13 – 37.

“Londra: il Science Museum e sua collezione di macchine tessili (The Science Museum, London, and its collection of textile machinery)”, Museoscienza , no.10, year VI (June 1997), pp.14 – 19 & 46, 47.

“Bergeron on Flute-Making”, Galpin Society Journal , XXIX (1976), pp. 26 – 34.

“Rational and Irrational Reconstruction: the London sundial-calendar and the early history of geared mechanisms”, History of Technology , 12 (1990), pp. 65 – 102.

“Gears from the Byzantines: a portable sundial with calendrical gearing”, Annals of Science , 42 (1985), pp. 87 – 138. (jointly with J.V. Field.)
 

2000-2004

Τ. Freeth, The Antikythera Mechanism: 1. Challenging the Classic Research, Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 2.1 (2002) 21-35.

Τ. Freeth, The Antikythera Mechanism: 2. Is it Posidonius'Orrery?, Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 2.2 (2002) 45-58.

M.Τ. Wright, A Planetarium Display for the Antikythera Mechanism, Horological Journal 144.5 (2002) 168-173 and 144.6 (2002) 193.

M.Τ. Wright, Epicyclic Gearing and the Antikythera Mechanism, Part 1, Antiquarian Horology 27.3 (2003) 267-279.

M.Τ. Wright, In the Steps of the Master Mechanic, in: Ancient Greece and the Modern World, Proceedings of a Conference in Ancient Olympia 2002, University of Patras 2003, 86-97.

M.Τ. Wright, The Antikythera Mechanism, Seminars in the History of Science and Technology, Science Museum and Imperial College, December 2004.

"Towards a New Reconstruction of the Antikythera Mechanism", ed. S.A. Paipetis, Proc. Conf. Extraordinary Machines and Structures in Antiquity (Ancient Olympia, August 2001), Peri Technon, Patras 2003, pp. 81 – 94 (the proceedings are available in separate English and Greek editions).

M.Τ. Wright, The Scholar, The Mechanic and the Antikythera Mechanism: Complementary Approaches to the Study of an Instrument, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society 80 (2004) 4-11.

*The Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient astronomical computer ?
Rien van de Weygaert, Sept. 2002, National Archaeological Museum, Athens (Antikythera Mechanism.htm)

“A Planetarium Display for the Antikythera Mechanism”, Horological Journal , vol. 144 no. 5 (May 2002), pp. 169 – 173, and vol. 144 no. 6 (June 2002), p. 193.

“Towards a New Reconstruction of the Antikythera Mechanism”, ed. S.A. Paipetis, Extraordinary Machines and Structures in Antiquity , Peri Technon, Patras 2003, pp. 81 – 94.

“The Scholar, the Mechanic and the Antikythera Mechanism”, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society , no. 80 (March 2004), pp. 4 – 11.

“In the Steps of the Master Mechanic”, Η Αρχαια Ελλ?δα και ο Σ?γχρονοσ Κ?σμοσ ( Ancient Greece and the Modern World ), University of Patras 2003, pp. 86 – 97.

“Epicyclic Gearing and the Antikythera Mechanism, part 1”, Antiquarian Horology , vol. 27 no. 3 (March 2003), pp. 270 – 279.

"A Planetarium Display for the Antikythera Mechanism", Horological Journal, vol. 144 no. 5 (May 2002), pp. 169 – 173, and vol. 144 no. 6 (June 2002), p. 193.

"Towards a New Reconstruction of the Antikythera Mechanism", ed. S.A. Paipetis, Proc. Conf. Extraordinary Machines and Structures in Antiquity (Ancient Olympia, August 2001), Peri Technon, Patras 2003, pp. 81 – 94 (the proceedings are available in separate English and Greek editions).

“In the Steps of the Master Mechanic”, Η Αρχαια Ελλ?δα και ο Σ?γχρονοσ Κ?σμοσ ( Ancient Greece and the Modern World ), University of Patras 2003, pp. 86 – 97.

"In the Steps of the Master Mechanic", Proc. Conf. Η Αρχαία Ελλάδα και ο Σύγχρονος Κόσμος (Ancient Greece and the Modern World) (Ancient Olympia, July 2002), University of Patras 2003, pp. 86 – 97.

“Moxon's Mechanick Exercises: or Every Man his own Clock-Smith”, Antiquarian Horology , vol. 25 no. 5 (September 2000), pp. 524 – 531.
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Eds. N. Easterbrook et al., Master Seafarers: the Phoenicians and Greeks (vol. 2 of Encyclopaedia of Underwater Archaeology), Periplus, 2003.
A short contribution concerning the Antikythera Mechanism.

M.T. Wright Interview by Sue Clark, National Radio, march 2004

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"The Scholar, the Mechanic and the Antikythera Mechanism" (Printed digest of the S.I.S. annual Invitation Lecture, delivered November 2003), Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, no. 80 (March 2004), pp. 4 – 11.

"Epicyclic Gearing and the Antikythera Mechanism, part 1", Antiquarian Horology, vol. 27 no. 3 (March 2003), pp. 270 – 279.

“James Watt, Musical Instrument Maker”, Galpin Society Journal , LV (2002), pp.104 – 129.

“A Planetarium Display for the Antikythera Mechanism”, Horological Journal , vol. 144 no. 5 (May 2002), pp. 169 – 173, and vol. 144 no. 6 (June 2002), p. 193.

“Greek and Roman Portable Sundials: an Ancient Essay in Approximation”, Archive of History of Exact Sciences 55 ( 2000 ), pp. 177 – 187.


“Towards a New Reconstruction of the Antikythera Mechanism”, ed. S.A. Paipetis, Extraordinary Machines and Structures in Antiquity , Peri Technon, Patras 2003, pp. 81 – 94.

“The Scholar, the Mechanic and the Antikythera Mechanism”, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society , no. 80 (March 2004), pp. 4 – 11.

“Epicyclic Gearing and the Antikythera Mechanism, part 1”, Antiquarian Horology , vol. 27 no. 3 (March 2003), pp. 270 – 279.

2005-2008

M.Τ. Wright, The Antikythera Mechanism: a New Gearing Scheme, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society 85 (2005) 2-7.

M.Τ. Wright, Ο Μηχανισμός των Αντικυθήρων. (The Antikythera Mechanism), Αρχαιολογία και Τέχνες, (June 2005), pp. 54 – 60 (in Greek).

M.T. Wright, Epicyclic gearing and the Antikythera Mechanism, Part 2, Antiquarian Horology 29.2 (2005) 51-63.

Μ.Τ. Wright, Counting Months and Years: The Upper Back Dial of the Antikythera Mechanism, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society 87 (2005) 8-13.

M.T. Wright, Understanding the Antikythera Mechanism, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Ancient Greek Technology, Athens 2005, 49-60.

Understanding the Antikythera Mechanism
M.T. Wright, held in Athens Conference, October 2005
(AntikytheraWright.pdf)

"Il meccanismo di Anticitera: l’antica tradizione dei meccanismi ad ingranaggio" (The Antikythera Mechanism: evidence for an ancient tradition of the making of geared instruments), in: E. Lo Sardo (ed.), Eureka! Il genio degli antichi (catalogue of an exhibition of that name, National Archaeological Museum, Naples, July 2005 – January 2006), Electa Napoli 2005, pp. 241 – 244 (in Italian).

*Antikythera Mechanism, slides by X. Moussas, Athens 2007

Archimedes and the 2000-year-old computer
12 December 2008 by Jo Marchant

*Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism: Investigation of an Ancient
Astronomical Calculator.
The Antikythera research Collaboration, Nature 2006

* Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism: Investigation of an Ancient
Astronomical Calculator, Supplementary Notes, Nature 2006

“On Reaming Flutes”, Galpin Society Journal , LVIII (2005), pp. 51 – 57. (jointly with R. Bigio.)

“On Reaming Flutes”, Galpin Society Journal , LVIII (2005), pp. 51 – 57.
(jointly with R. Bigio.)

“The Antikythera Mechanism: a New Gearing Scheme”, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society , no. 85 (June 2005), pp. 2 – 7.

“Ο Μηχανισμoσ των ΑντικυΘερων” (The Antikythera Mechanism), Αρχαιολογια & τεχν?σ 95 (June 2005), pp. 54 – 60.

“Μηχανισμοι με γραν?ζια απ? την αρχαι?τερα ?ωσ σ?μερα: μια συνεχ?σ παρ?δοση” ( Geared Instruments from Antiquity to the Present Day: a Continuous Tradition), Αρχαιολογια & τεχν?σ 96 (September 2005), pp. 58 – 63.

“Epicyclic Gearing and the Antikythera Mechanism, part 2”, Antiquarian Horology vol. 29 no. 1 (September 2005), pp. 51 – 63.

“Counting Months and Years: the Upper Back Dial of the Antikythera Mechanism”, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society , no. 87 (December 2005), pp. 8 – 13.

“The Antikythera Mechanism and the early history of the Moon Phase Display”, Antiquarian Horology vol. 29 no. 3 (March 2006), pp.319 – 329.

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"The Antikythera Mechanism: a New Gearing Scheme", Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, no. 85 (June 2005), pp. 2 – 7.

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“Ο Μηχανισμός των Αντικυθήρων” (The Antikythera Mechanism), Αρχαιολογία & Τεχνές 95 (June 2005), pp. 54 – 60 (in Greek).

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"Il meccanismo di Anticitera: l’antica tradizione dei meccanismi ad ingranaggio" (The Antikythera Mechanism: evidence for an ancient tradition of the making of geared instruments), in: E. Lo Sardo (ed.), Eureka! Il genio degli antichi (catalogue of an exhibition of that name, National Archaeological Museum, Naples, July 2005 – January 2006), Electa Napoli 2005, pp. 241 – 244 (in Italian).


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"Epicyclic Gearing and the Antikythera Mechanism, part 2", Antiquarian Horology, vol. 29 no. 1 (September 2005), pp. 51 – 63.

13
"Counting Months and Years: the Upper Back Dial of the Antikythera Mechanism", Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, no. 87 (December 2005), pp. 8 – 13.

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"The Antikythera Mechanism and the early history of the Moon Phase Display", Antiquarian Horology, vol. 29 no. 3 (March 2006), pp. 319 – 329. [ 6.5 MB ]
“Ο Μηχανισμ?σ των ΑντικυΘ?ρων” (The Antikythera Mechanism), Αρχαιολογια & τεχν?σ 95 (June 2005), pp. 54 – 60.

“Μηχανισμοι με γραν?ζια απ? την αρχαι?τερα ?ωσ σ?μερα: μια συνεχ?σ παρ?δοση” ( Geared Instruments from Antiquity to the Present Day: a Continuous Tradition), Αρχαιολογια & τεχν?σ 96 (September 2005), pp. 58 – 63.

“Epicyclic Gearing and the Antikythera Mechanism, part 2”, Antiquarian Horology vol. 29 no. 1 (September 2005), pp. 51 – 63.

"Understanding the Antikythera Mechanism", Proc. Conf. Αρχαία Ελληνική Τεχνολογία (Ancient Greek Technology) (Athens, October 2005), Τεχνικό Επιμελητήριο Ελλάδας (TEE) Athens 2006, pp. 49 – 60 (the paper is printed in English).

“Counting Months and Years: the Upper Back Dial of the Antikythera Mechanism”, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society , no. 87 (December 2005), pp. 8 – 13.

“The Antikythera Mechanism and the early history of the Moon Phase Display”, Antiquarian Horology vol. 29 no. 3 (March 2006), pp.319 – 329.

“The Antikythera Mechanism: a New Gearing Scheme”, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society , no. 85 (June 2005), pp. 2 – 7.

"Understanding the Antikythera Mechanism", Proc. Conf. Αρχαία Ελληνική Τεχνολογία (Ancient Greek Technology) (Athens, October 2005), Τεχνικό Επιμελητήριο Ελλάδας (TEE) Athens 2006, pp. 49 – 60 (the paper is printed in English).

*Pierre LE HIR : Le mystérieux mécanisme d’Anticythère, Le Monde, 1.12.2006

*Calendars with Olympiad display and eclipse prediction on the Antikythera Mechanism, Tony Freeth, Alexander Jones, John M. Steele & Yanis Bitsakis
Nature, Letters, July 2008

*Gears from the Greeks: the Antikythera Mechanism and the early history of computer science, Dr. J. Reece Roth, UT plasma sciences laboratory, 2007

Calendars with Olympiad display and eclipse prediction on the Antikythera Mechanism, Tony Freeth1, Alexander Jones, John M. Steele & Yanis Bitsakis. Nature Letters July 2008

“Response to the Discussion”, Proc. Conf. Αρχαία Ελληνική Τεχνολογία (Ancient Greek Technology) (Athens, October 2005), (TEE) Athens 2006, pp. 833 – 835.
(a response, in English, to a “Round Table Discussion” on the Antikythera Mechanism preceding it, conducted and printed in Greek)

“The Antikythera Mechanism reconsidered” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 2007, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 27 – 43.



2009-2012

M.T. Wright and Mogi Vicentini : Virtual Model of the mechanism, 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MqhuAnySPZ0
The same in detail (MORE-DOCS/A-t-1280.avi

M.T. Wright presents his model to writer Jo Marchant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eUibFQKJqI

Byzantine Sundial cum Calendar.
http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/galileopalazzostrozzi/object/ByzantineSundialcumcalendarWorkingReconstruction.html. 2009

The Antikythera Mechanism http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/galileopalazzostrozzi/object/TheAntikytheraMechanism.html
same http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/galileopalazzostrozzi/oggetto/MeccanismoAntikytheraZoom.html


*Christián C. Carman, Alan Thorndike, James Evans. On the pin-and-slot device of the Antikythera Mechanism, with a new application to the superior
planets, JHA, 2012

THE FRONT DIAL OF THE ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM
Michael T. Wright, 2011

Athens 2012 Exhibition

Contributions to Books

John Joseph Merlin, The Ingenious Mechanick , Greater London Council, 1985. (jointly with A. French & F. Palmer.)

Early Gearing: Geared Mechanisms in the Ancient and Mediaeval World , The Science Museum, 1985. (jointly with J.V. Field.)

Byzantine and Arabic mathematical Gearing , The Science Museum, 1985.
(jointly with J.V. Field and D.R. Hill.)

Eds. M. Hunter & S. Schaffer, Robert Hooke: New Studies , The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1989. Chapter 3: “Robert Hooke's Longitude Timekeeper”.


Eds. N. Cossons et al., Making of the Modern World: milestones of science and technology , John Murray in association with The Science Museum, 1992. Various entries.

Eds. R. Bud & D. Warner, Encyclopedia of Scientific Instruments. Entries on: “angular measurement”; “linear measurement”; and “surface texture, measurement of”.

Πρωιμα Γραv?ζια , a translation into Greek of Early Gearing (vide supra), The Technical Museum, Thessaloniki, 1997.

“Greek and Roman Portable Sundials: an Ancient Essay in Approximation”, Archive of History of Exact Sciences 55 ( 2000 ), pp. 177 – 187.

“Moxon's Mechanick Exercises: or Every Man his own Clock-Smith”, Antiquarian Horology , vol. 25 no. 5 (September 2000), pp. 524 – 531.

“James Watt, Musical Instrument Maker”, Galpin Society Journal , LV (2002), pp.104 – 129.

Eds. N. Easterbrook et al., Master Seafarers: the Phoenicians and Greeks (vol. 2 of Encyclopaedia of Underwater Archaeology ), Periplus, 2003.
A contribution concerning the Antikythera Mechanism .

Ed. E. Lo Sardo, Eureka! Il genio degli antichi , Electa Napoli 2005.
Chapter: “Il meccanismo di Anticitera: l'antica tradizione dei meccanismi ad ingranaggio” ( The Antikythera Mechanism: evidence for an ancient tradition of the making of geared instruments), pp. 241 – 244.
 

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