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A conjecture about Hispania and Pharos

Dear researchers:

I don’t speack english, so I use online translators and hoping excuse me for my mistakes, I would like to be allowed to try to explain.

In your results published in the prestige science journal Nature on November 30, 2006, you wrote:

The text near the lower back dial includes ‘‘Pharos’’ and ‘‘from
south (about/around)….Spain (ISPANIA) ten’’. These geographical
references, together with previous readings1 of ‘‘towards the
east’’, ‘‘west-north-west’’ and ‘‘west-south-west’’ suggest an eclipse
function for the dial, as solar eclipses occur only at limited geographical
sites, and winds were often recorded17–19 in antiquity with eclipse
observations. Possibly this information was added to the mechanism
during use.

I would like to present an alternative interpretation:

In his study on ancient maps, Charles H. Hapgood, Professor of History of Science in the Keene State College at the University of New Hampshire, deduced in 1960 an ancient geographic coordinates system, whose inaccuracies in the maps only allowed him to approximate the Pole as "a place near to Cairo City." So if the Pole (C) in the graph from the attachment file (at the bottom of this message) is moved to Alexandria Lighthouse, north-westerly direction to the Mediterranean coast, and apply a rotation of less than five degrees, Zero Meridian (marked as 1, according to the “system of the eight winds") is exactly in the direction to the Valencia Port, Spain.

You know that the gearings of the Antikythera Mechanism had to be designed based on the epicycles of apparent movement of Sun, Moon and planets around the Earth. To such epicycles can be annexed the movements of rotation and precession of axis Terrestrial, allowing assigning geographic coordinates to the Earth's surface from the relative position of the zenith respect to the plane of the ecliptic and the heavenly bodies whose cyclical movement has been modeled by the Antikythera Mechanism.
Should be arbitrarily choosing a Pole and a Zero Meridian, which could have been respectively the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the direction in a straight line toward the Port of Valencia, Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.

This is the conjecture that I wanted to present to you.
Would it be possible to open a new line of research from this conjecture?
What comments could make on this?

For your attention, thank you very much.
Best regards,
Jesús Morfín Garduño.

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