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May 27, 2008
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William Noel, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the Walters Art Museum, talks about the book he co-authored with Reviel Netz entitled: The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the true Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist, and his ten-year project to uncover one of the most important documents in the history of science, the Archimedes Palimpsest.
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Antiquities, Classical Studies, Cultural Transmission, Higher Education, History, Interdisciplinarity, Libraries and Archives, Mathematics, Memory, Paleography, Scholarly Communication
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