More wired than a Roman Internet café
Courtesy of Dot Porter of Digital Medievalist, there are a series of videos on the Archimedes Palimpsest and the digital tools used to conserve and interpret this amazing document.
Google TechTalks
March 7, 2006
Will Noel
Roger L. Easton, Jr.
Michael B. Toth
ABSTRACT
The Archimedes Palimpsest is a 10th Century medieval manuscript that is the subject of an ongoing technical, scientific and conservation effort at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Since 1999, the multidisciplinary team has been disbinding, conserving, imaging, analyzing, transcribing and studying the 174 parchment folios -- yielding approximately 400Gb of data to date. The Palimpsest, which the team affectionately calls "Archie," includes at least seven treatises by Archimedes: The only copies of two of his Treatises, /The Method/ and /Stomachion/; the only copy in Greek of /On Floating...
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