Archimedes in the Sand Reckoner cites to be solving on a problem from the "Eastern Philosophers". The problem is also in the Vajra Sutra where the numbers of sands in the cosmos is contemplated.
Archimedes Father was an astronomer.
Great parallel lives material that never maid it into the original.
The Antikytheron is written in a Corinthian dialect, from where Archimdes father is said to have come from.
My musing consiracy theory for the Roman sacking of Syracuse was for the Antikythera from which harvest and thus taxes could be better calculated - i.e. Thales.
But the Romans killed the only guy who understood how the Antikythera worked.... so it became a generals paper weight.
In particular when it says "it was demonstrated in 2017 that the calendar on the Metonic Spiral is indeed of the Corinthian type but cannot be that of Syracuse," although as evidence goes that doesn't sound definitive.
Nevertheless, it is important to remember that Archimedes was part of an active intellectual community and is reported to have written a (now lost) manuscript on the construction of planetarium-style models ("On Sphere-Making"), so whether or not the artifact is directly from Archimedes there might be an intellectual link.
Thanks for posting the link.
Much of my commentary comes from past research on Archimedes... so I am biased and amused.
If I recall the founding of Syracuse is by Spartans and Corinthians... Archimedes society cared enough about knowledge that he was sent to Alexandria to study. Syracuse was a melting pot of cultures from the start and the Phonecians and the roman conflicts reinforced that to the end.
Archimedes in the Sand Reckoner cites to be solving on a problem from the "Eastern Philosophers". The problem is also in the Vajra Sutra where the numbers of sands in the cosmos is contemplated.
Archimedes Father was an astronomer.
Great parallel lives material that never maid it into the original.
The Antikytheron is written in a Corinthian dialect, from where Archimdes father is said to have come from.
My musing consiracy theory for the Roman sacking of Syracuse was for the Antikythera from which harvest and thus taxes could be better calculated - i.e. Thales.
But the Romans killed the only guy who understood how the Antikythera worked.... so it became a generals paper weight.