Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes

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Title:: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes
Speaker:: William Noel
Description:: 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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Video Language:: English
Team:: closed TED
Project:: TEDTalks
Duration:: 14:53

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