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X-ray Tomography of the Antikythera Mechanism
2013
Proceedings of From Antikythera to the Square Kilometre Array: Lessons from the Ancients — PoS(Antikythera & SKA)
unpublished
An "in-depth" explanation of how X-ray tomography revealed the secrets of the world's most ancient astronomical calculator, this talk will describe how X-Tek Systems Ltd, at the time a small UK-based X-ray company, developed a high resolution, high voltage X-ray source, took an 8-tonne cabinet to Greece and probed the secrets of surely the most fascinating artefact of ancient Greek culture. I will explain how X-ray computed tomography (CT) works, how we were able to see beneath the corrosion,
doi:10.22323/1.170.0022
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