A MITH Digital Dialogue<\/p>\n
Tuesday, February 24, 12:30-1:45<\/p>\n
MITH Conference Room, McKeldin Library B0135<\/p>\n
The Archimedes Palimpsest is a<\/p>\n
manuscript of extraordinary importance to the history of science. This<\/p>\n
thirteenth century prayer book contains erased texts that were written<\/p>\n
several centuries earlier still. These erased texts include two<\/p>\n
treatises by Archimedes that can be found nowhere else, The Method and<\/p>\n
Stomachion. The manuscript sold at auction to a private collector on<\/p>\n
the 29th October 1998. The owner deposited the manuscript at The<\/p>\n
Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, a few months later. Since<\/p>\n
that date the manuscript has been the subject of conservation, imaging<\/p>\n
and scholarship, in order to better read the texts. The Archimedes<\/p>\n
Palimpsest project, as it is called, has shed new light on Archimedes<\/p>\n
and revealed new texts from the ancient world. It has also generated a<\/p>\n
great deal of public curiosity, as well as the interest of scholars<\/p>\n
throughout the world.<\/p>\n
On 29th October 2008, we celebrated the ten year anniversary of the<\/p>\n
project. What was erased text, in terrible condition, impossible to<\/p>\n
access, and yet foundational to the history and science of the West,<\/p>\n
is now legible, and instantly available for free on the Web. This talk<\/p>\n
will cover the evolution of the project as well as its future<\/p>\n
directions.<\/p>\n
WILLIAM NOEL, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the Walters Art<\/p>\n
Museum, received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in England in<\/p>\n
1993. He has served as director of studies in the history of art at<\/p>\n
Downing College, Cambridge University, and as Assistant Curator of<\/p>\n
Manuscripts at The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Noel is the<\/p>\n
author of The Harley Psalter (1995), an in-depth investigation into<\/p>\n
the making of an illustrated 11th-century Psalter. He is also<\/p>\n
co-editor and contributor of the exhibition catalogue The Utrecht<\/p>\n
Psalter in Medieval Art: Picturing the Psalms of David (1996). In<\/p>\n
2002, together with Prof. Daniel Weiss and Dr. Griffith Mann, he<\/p>\n
curated the exhibition The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan<\/p>\n
Library’s Medieval Picture Bible. His recent book, The Oxford Bible<\/p>\n
Pictures (2004), concerns a series of English miniatures of the<\/p>\n
13th-century at the Walters. Since January 1999, Noel has directed an<\/p>\n
international program to conserve, image, and study the Archimedes<\/p>\n
Palimpsest, the unique source for three treatises by the ancient Greek<\/p>\n
mathematician Archimedes (www.archimedespalimpsest.org). He has<\/p>\n
co-written with Prof. Reviel Netz a popular account of the project<\/p>\n
entitled The Archimedes Codex (2007). Will has taught and lectured<\/p>\n
widely. He is on the faculty of the Rare Book School, University of<\/p>\n
Virginia, and is an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n
Coming up @MITH 3\/3:<\/p>\n
Sayeed Choudhury (Johns Hopkins), “An Abundant Humanities Library”<\/p>\n
View MITH’s complete Digital Dialogues schedule here:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100615144914\/http:\/\/www.mith2.umd.edu\/programs\/mith_speakers_spring_2009.pdf<\/p>\n
All talks free and open to the public!<\/p>\n
Contact: Neil Fraistat, Director, MITH (www.mith.umd.edu, mith@umd.edu, 5-8927).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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