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Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes

William Noel · TED

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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.

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TED
Department
TEDxSummit
Speaker
William Noel
Year
2012
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Computer science, History, Art, architecture and design
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TED
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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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