It's interesting that the oldest part of the artifact has the most advanced astronomical information.

https://www.himmelsscheibe-erleben.de/

Apparently the only pre-modern people (i.e. pre-Giordano Bruno) recorded as making the claim were Anaxagoras, and Aristarchus of Samos, but their ideas were completely rejected by contemporaries.

In retrospect, it just seems so blindingly obvious that I'm tempted to believe that I too would have seen through the Aristotelean BS. But surely there must be aspects of reality that will seem similarly obvious to future generations, and yet I don't feel any insights coming on.

I should say, Aristarchus is the ideal of maximizing information from minimal data:

>Aristarchus of Samos (Samos is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea) lived from about 310 to 230 BC, about 2250 years ago. He measured the size and distance of the Sun and, though his observations were inaccurate, found that the Sun is much larger than the Earth. Aristarchus then suggested that the small Earth orbits around the big Sun rather than the other way around, and he also suspected that stars were nothing but distant suns, but his ideas were rejected and later forgotten, and he, too, was threatened for suggesting such things

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/FAQ/Qsunasstar.html

The stars are no evidence. A bunch of dots can be stretched to fit any star configuration you please.

And there are way too many crescents. What, did we have three moons back then? And none of them are shaped anything like the actual moon looks at any time.

Hm.

> The defenders argued that as a cult object, the disc had already been "published" approximately 3,500 years earlier in the Bronze Age and that consequently, all protection of intellectual property associated with it has long expired.

This is really silly, and disappointed if this is valid under DE/EU law. This is our shared history, not a trademark