The Archimedes Palimpsest: Beyond the Surface (Princeton Bibliophiles & Collectors)
William Noel, John T. Maltsberger III ’55 Associate University Librarian for Special Collections at Princeton University Library, discusses the work of a team representing many countries and many disciplines that brought the Archimedes Palimpsest back to life. It is a tail of high drama and low dealings, cautious conservation and bold scholarly deduction, and it came to a head one starry night at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory in California when Archimedes text appeared like a fax from the third century BC. Sponsored by the Princeton Bibliophiles & Collectors.
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- Sunday, December 13, 2020
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- 4:00pm - 5:00pm
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William Noel is the John T. Maltsberger III ’55 Associate University Librarian for Special Collections at Princeton University Library. Before that he was director of the Special Collections Center and founding director of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He has held positions at Downing College, University of Cambridge, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore where he was curator of manuscripts and rare books. A specialist in the fields of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman manuscripts, he’s published extensively and been responsible for more than 20 exhibitions on the art of the book. Noel has also published, with co-author Reviel Netz, a popular account of the story of the Archimedes Palimpsest and the project to extract its unique texts. That book, The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist, appears in 20 languages and was awarded the Neumann Prize in 2009 from the British Society for the History of Mathematics.
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