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  • Archimedes Brought to Light
    Uwe Bergmann describes how physicists have used X-ray fluorescence to uncover some of Archimedes' oldest writings that were hidden from sight in an ancient medieval prayer book
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  • Early Commentary on Aristotle’s Categories found in Palimpsest
    Experts are "lost for words" to have found that a medieval prayer book has yielded yet another key ancient text buried within its parchment. Works by mathematician Archimedes and the politician Hyperides had already been found buried within the book, known as the Archimedes Palimpsest. But now advanced imaging technology has revealed a third text - a commentary on the philosopher Aristotle
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LIVE WEBCAST

  • Infinite Possibilities: Eight Years of Study of the Archimedes Palimpsest
    Annual General Meeting of the American Philosophical Society
    April 26, 2007
    9:15am EST, Benjamin Franklin Hall, Philadelphia
    Presented by:
    WILLIAM NOEL, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books Walters Art Museum , Baltimore , MD and ROGER L. EASTON, JR., Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
    http://www.amphilsoc.org/meetings/webcast.htm

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  • The Evidence Project Presents Ancient Writings Revealed!
    August 4, 2006
    4 pm PST, McBean auditorium
    Join us at the Exploratorium or online as we watch ancient text revealed and read for the first time in a thousand years! Archimedes was one of the world's greatest scientific and mathematical minds. His thoughts were inscribed on goatskin parchment, but the letters and diagrams were scraped off and written over by Greek monks in the Middle Ages. Now, using an intense x-ray beam generated at Stanford University's linear accelerator, some of the original Greek text will be revealed for the first time in the modern world.
    http://www.exploratorium.edu/archimedes/webcast.html

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  • Book TV on C-Span2
    William Noel, Co-author, "The Archimedes Codex"
    Authors: Reviel Netz; William Noel
    About the Program — In October of 1998 at an auction at Christie's in New York, an anonymous American book collector purchased a 13th century prayer book for 2 million dollars. The prayer book is a palimpsest; a book that was written over older words that had been scrapped off the animal skin or parchment pages. In this case, the prayer book was written over 10th century manuscript copies of treatises by ancient Greek mathmatician Archimedes (287-212BC). The anonymous bidder deposited the manuscript with the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore and has funded a 10 year project to read the works under the prayer book. Along with discovering lost works by Archimedes, other ancient texts previously thought lost have been discovered.
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