И чтобы уж совсем вывести из себя логически настроенных борцов за чистоту исторической науки, освобождения ея из сказочных тенет фальсификаторов 16 века, дам все-таки ссылочку на одно из последних исследований, основанное, кстати, на археологическом артефакте.

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THE RECOVERED ARCHIMEDES PLANETARIUM - Science, technology, history, literature and archaeology, certainties and conjectures on the most ancient and extraordinary astronomical calculating device. With other two scientific studies: on the Antikythera Planetarium and the Pitcher of Ripacandida.
The restoration of the gear, found in Olbia (Sardinia, Italy) in 2006 by the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici that has dated it back from the end of the III to the half of II the century BC, has revealed a very important surprise: the teeth have a special curving which make them turn out extraordinarily similar to those mathematically perfect ones of the modern gears. Also the unusual composition of the alloy (brass) has been completely unexpected. The gear, although has been realized before all the other known mechanisms up now, turns out more scientifically advanced. Considered the perfect similarity between the scientific evidences and the historical, literary and archaeological outcomes, it does not seem risky to conclude that the fragment of Olbia was an integrated part of the Archimedes Planetarium (Orrery). In this book, you can find all the reported motivations and the scientific tests which led me to attribute the fragment of cogwheel found in Olbia to the Archimedes Planetarium.
Getting to know my peculiar research, you can approach other two recent scientific studies of mine. In the second part of the book, a study on the cinematic model of the Greek Antikythera Planetarium, which anticipates the Copernicus’ heliocentrism, is presented with reference to the gear of Olbia. The knowledge of the epicyclic or planetary motion, necessary for the planning of the epicyclic gearing in the Antikythera Planetarium as in the profile of the teeth of Archimedes gear, let us presume that some Hellenistic scientists had a certain acquaintance with the calculation of the planetary motion of the celestial bodies and that they had achieved the same results caught up in modern age, that is to say 2000 years after. In the third part of the work, it is finally presented the study of the V century BC pitcher of Ripacandida in Basilicata (Italy), of Pythagorean derivation, that reveals the impact, really happened, of a great meteorite on the Earth, demonstrating that the physical laws, there graphically represented, are extraordinarily modern and in complete antithesis with the successive dogmatic Aristotelian physics.
This book could not be missing in the library of the researcher, of the curious, of everyone who wants to deepen its own knowledge on the instruments of scientific calculus of the past and also to surprise with a special gift. The book is written in Italian. Given the considerable international interest, an English translation is in preparation.