REVEALING THE LOST CODEX OF ARCHIMEDES

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The E-Sylum: Volume 17, Number 1, January 5, 2014, Article 27

REVEALING THE LOST CODEX OF ARCHIMEDES

Bibliophiles will appreciate this TED Talk video about the Herculean efforts of book conservators to rescue (and digitize) the (nearly) destroyed only-surviving copy of a 2,000-year-old Archimedes manuscript. -Editor

How do you read a two-thousand-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course! Ancient books curator William Noel tells the fascinating story behind the Archimedes palimpsest, a Byzantine prayer book containing previously-unknown original writings from ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes and others.

To view the video, see: William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes (www.ted.com/talks/william_noel_revealing_the_lost_codex_of_archimedes.html)

For more information on the project, see: THE ARCHIMEDES PALIMPSEST PROJECT (www.archimedespalimpsest.org/)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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