All Videos Tagged manuscripts (eLatin eGreek eLearn) - eLatin eGreek eLearn 2024-05-01T06:22:18Z https://eclassics.ning.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=manuscripts&rss=yes&xn_auth=no The Archimedes Palimpsest tag:eclassics.ning.com,2008-10-29:727885:Video:28507 2008-10-29T17:08:44.770Z Andrew Reinhard https://eclassics.ning.com/profile/amasis <a href="https://eclassics.ning.com/video/727885:Video:28507"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="97" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/327228600?profile=original&amp;width=130&amp;height=97" width="130"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>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.<br></br> <br></br> Google TechTalks<br></br> March 7, 2006<br></br> <br></br> Will Noel<br></br> Roger L. Easton, Jr.<br></br> Michael B. Toth<br></br> <br></br> ABSTRACT<br></br> The Archimedes Palimpsest is a 10th Century medieval manuscript… <a href="https://eclassics.ning.com/video/727885:Video:28507"><br /> <img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/327228600?profile=original&amp;width=130&amp;height=97" width="130" height="97" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />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.<br /> <br /> Google TechTalks<br /> March 7, 2006<br /> <br /> Will Noel<br /> Roger L. Easton, Jr.<br /> Michael B. Toth<br /> <br /> ABSTRACT<br /> 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...