From cass@math.ubc.ca Tue Apr 29 10:28:41 2008
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:28:07 -0700
From: Bill Casselman <cass@math.ubc.ca>
To: Helen Jacobus <Helen.Jacobus@brunel.ac.uk>
Cc: tony@math.sunysb.edu
Subject: Re: antikythera animation

Helen Jacobus wrote:
> 
> Dear Prof. Casselman
> 
> I am struck by your wonderful animation of the sun-moon mechanism on
> the Antikythera Mechanism
> http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~tony/whatsnew/column/antikytheraI-0400/kyth5.html
> 
> I would like to be able to include it in my thesis (if my superviser
> allows it) and accordingly, I am requesting permission to footnote the
> link.

yes, of course.
although since then, Java has improved so as to make
a much smoother animation possible.

> I am researching a lunar zodiac calendar in the Dead Sea Scrolls (at
> Manchester University), and I am including a small section on the
> Antikythera Mechanism.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Helen Jacobus
> PhD student, Manchester University
> Dept Religions and Theology

can you please send me a copy of the thesis when done?

electronic if possible, otherwise to

Bill Casselman
Department of Mathematics
University of British Columbia
Vancouver V6T 1Z2
CANADA