William Noel presents at TEDtalks about work in 15 minutes on conserving, deciphering, & digitizing Archimedes text on his secret Method of integral calculus.
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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