So, are they just not going to tell us exactly what is says until their conference in November, if then? Or am I missing a story or two where they do state what it says rather than making vague references to celestial stuff? I can’t google it and the waiting is killing me, cripes. :mad:
So, are they just not going to tell us exactly what is says until their conference in November, if then? Or am I missing a story or two where they do state what it says rather than making vague references to celestial stuff? I can’t google it and the waiting is killing me, cripes. :mad:
The article mentions science historian Derek Price, whose Scientific American Article says:
The fragments show that the original instrument carried at least four large areas of inscription: outside the front door, inside the back door, on the plate between the two back dials and on the parapegma plates near the front dial. As I have noted, there are also inscriptions around all the dials, and furthermore each part and hole would seem to have had identifying letters so that the pieces could be put together in the correct order and position. The main inscriptions are in a sorry state and only short snatches of them can be read. To provide an idea of their condition it need only be said that in some cases a plate has completely disappeared, leaving behind an impression of its letters, standing up in a mirror image, in relief on the soft corrosion products on the plate below. It is remarkable that such inscriptions can be read at all.
For a complete listing of all transcribed text, yeah, we’ll probably have to wait.