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Metonic, Olympiad & Callippic Dials

The upper back dials of the Mechanism. The main dial is a five-turn spiral dial that shows the 235 months of the 19-year Metonic period. The names of the months and the start of each years is inscribed between the scale divisions. The right-hand subsidiary dial is an Olympiad Dial and the left-hand a conjectured Callippic Dial.

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