Fetti, Archimedes in Thought, 1620
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.
NOVA's production of The Infinite Secrets of Archimedes is here.
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