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The Archimedes Palimpsest

The Archimedes Palimpsest is a 10th ... all » 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 & studying the 174 parchment folios – yielding approximately 400Gb of data to date.

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scanjet : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

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178 days 20 hours ago...

First learned about this on PBS Nova:


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/archimedes/

http://www.pbs.org/w
gbh/nova/archimedes/palimpsest.html

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At last we can go right to the source rather than having to take the word of middle men.

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