Not merely inspiration, but https://bhi.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/BHI-Antikythera-Mechanism-Evidence-of-a-Lunar-Calendar.pdf https://bhi.co.uk/wp-content

Not merely inspiration, but https://bhi.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/BHI-Antikythera-Mechanism-Evidence-of-a-Lunar-Calendar.pdf https://bhi.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/BHI-Antikythera... is Budiselic et. al.'s paper on the hole count. (It's kind of a big deal to fans because he stopped putting out youtube videos to get the paper ready for publication - where we learned that this was far more than a machining-technique obsession, and that the "British Horological Institute" was a real thing :-)