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On Floating Bodies and other ancient texts

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Thu 3 August 2006, 6:45pm
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At a slight tangent to today’s posts, but fascinating nonetheless, comes this report from the BBC on how a technique known as X-ray fluorescence is being used to reveal texts on parchments dating from the 10th Century and used to construct a 13th Century palimpsest. The texts had been transcribed from originals written by, amongst others, the Greek mathematican Archimedes. Press release here. For more information see here.. and there will be a live webcast of the latest work at the Exploratorium science museum on Friday 4th August 4pm PDT [which converts to 12 midnight here - Ed]

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  1. bootman says:
    4 August 2006 at 4:55 pm

    so what? Seriously surely something more interesting is happening?

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  2. Pete Baker (profile) says:
    4 August 2006 at 6:07 pm

    Seriously, this is the only thing I found interesting enough to write about.

    [off sarcasm]

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