This article analyzes the angular spacing of the degree marks on the zodiac scale of the Antikythera mechanism and demonstrates that over the entire preserved 88° of the zodiac, the marks are systematically placed too close together to be consistent with a uniform distribution over 360°. Thus, in some other part of the zodiac scale (not preserved), the degree marks have been spaced farther apart. By contrast, the day marks on the Egyptian calendar scale are spaced uniformly, apart from minor errors. A solar equation of center is apparent which rises by nearly 2.7° over the preserved portion of the zodiac. The placement of the degree marks indicates that, in the preserved portion of the zodiac, the Sun was considered to run at a uniform pace of about 30° per synodic month, which is consistent with the Sun’s speed in the fast zone of the Babylonian solar theory of System A.

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Antikythera 机制的巴比伦太阳理论

本文分析了 Antikythera 机制黄道带刻度上度数标记的角间距，并证明在整个保留的 88° 黄道带上，这些标记被系统地放置得太近，无法在 360° 上均匀分布。因此，在黄道带刻度的其他部分（未保留），度数标记已间隔得更远。相比之下，埃及日历刻度上的日期标记是均匀间隔的，除了小错误。一个中心的太阳方程很明显，它在黄道十二宫的保留部分上升了近 2.7°。度数标记的位置表明，在黄道十二宫的保留部分，太阳被认为以每个朔望月约 30° 的均匀速度运行，