Antikythera fans

Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ gordonjcp at gjcp.net
Mon Mar 2 04:25:04 CST 2009


On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 09:18 +0000, Evan Koblentz wrote:
> Price's work is interesting from a historical perspective, but I urge
> people NOT to read him if the goal is a decent replica. Marchant's new
> book thoroughly explains how Price's work is obsolete and wrong. Price
> had only part of the facts from which to start. He also made some
> incorrect and unethical guesses.

Incorrect I can see, but how can you be "unethical" with a gearbox?  Was
it "two sets of records to confuse others" unethical or "running over
unarmed protesters with a bulldozer" unethical?

Gordon



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