The Moroccan pavilion at the 19th edition of the International Architecture Exhibition – the Venice Biennale – was inaugurated on Friday in Venice, according to a statement from the Ministry of Youth, ...

Jr., Roger L. Easton,, et al. "Spectral Imaging Methods Applied to the Syriac-Galen Palimpsest." Manuscript Studies 3. 1 (2018): 69-82. Print. Easton, Roger L., et al ...

“He responded to an email from Noel asking to display the palimpsest at the Walters Art Museum. That simple request kicked off a new chapter in the saga: the Archimedes Palimpsest Project.

Much of his work only survived through copies and translations by scribes. One of the most famous fragments of Archimedes’ writings was the Palimpsest, a manuscript which by the 12th century a monk ...

At the world’s oldest monastery, new technology is making long-lost manuscripts available to anyone with an Internet connection St. Catherine’s Monastery was built at the foot of Mt.

The imaging technique has already been used to examine the Archimedes Palimpsest, among other artifacts. When the manuscript first came into Wilfrid Voynich's hands in 1912, he noted that the ...

The Archimedes Palimpsest project, which ran from 2000-2011, straddled these two eras rather precisely. This talk presents the history of the imaging methods used on the palimpsest, including some ...

Tributes have been paid to a renowned US scholar who died in a road traffic collision in Edinburgh. Dr William Noel was struck by a van while walking on Trinity Crescent in the capital on ...

2 years ago Noel is perhaps best known for his leadership role in the Archimedes Palimpsest Project, an international collaboration among historians, physicists, mathematicians and conservators to ...

The technique is particularly useful for probing the palimpsest because the ink used by the scribe to record Archimedes' work contains iron. "When the X-rays hit an iron atom it emits a characteristic ...

The 174-page work, known as the Archimedes Palimpsest, contains notes and calculations for two of the mathematician’s most famous theories, “On Floating Bodies” and “Method of Mechanical ...