{"id":1947,"date":"2013-08-07T17:28:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T17:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2013-08-07T17:28:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T17:28:06","slug":"william-noel-revealing-the-lost-codex-of-archimedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2013\/08\/07\/william-noel-revealing-the-lost-codex-of-archimedes\/","title":{"rendered":"William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2013\/08\/home-book-photo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1948\" alt=\"home-book-photo\" src=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2013\/08\/home-book-photo.jpg\" width=\"372\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"tagline\" lang=\"en\">How do you read a two-thousand-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course! Ancient books curator William Noel tells the fascinating story behind the Archimedes palimpsest, a Byzantine prayer book containing previously-unknown original writings from ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes and others.<\/p>\n<p>William Noel is a curator who believes museums should make their collections free and available on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Access the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/william_noel_revealing_the_lost_codex_of_archimedes.html\">TED talk.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archimedespalimpsest.org\/\">Archimedes Palimpsest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you read a two-thousand-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course! Ancient books curator William Noel tells the fascinating story behind the Archimedes palimpsest, a Byzantine prayer book containing previously-unknown original writings from ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes and others. William Noel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archives-in-the-news","7":"category-books","8":"category-manuscripts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}