Anonymous Patron writes “New technology reveals ancient math texts” at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center last week.
Powerful X-ray beams are used to illuminate the long-lost theorems of ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes, lifting them from faded 10th-century parchments. Tuned to a specific energy, the light caused traces of iron in the ink to fluoresce, revealing for the first time the wispy outlines of Archimedes’ 2,000-year-old ideas etched onto a goatskin document known as the “Palimpsest.”
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