LOST AND FOUND: THE SECRETS OF ARCHIMEDES

LOST for centuries. FOUND by the Walters Art Museum.

Discover how an international team of experts resurrected the hidden manuscript of the ancient world's greatest thinker, Archimedes of Syracuse.

A PRESENTATION
by Dr. William Noel
Curator, Walters Art Museum

Tuesday, October 25th, 6:30-8:30pm
At the Embassy of Greece

Dr. Noel will discuss 10 years of conservation, imaging and research on The Archimedes Palimpsest. This thirteenth century prayer book contains erased texts that were written several centuries earlier still. These erased texts include two treatises by Archimedes that can be found nowhere else, The Method and Stomachion. The manuscript sold at auction to a private collector on the 29th October 1998. The owner deposited the manuscript at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, a few months later. Since that date the manuscript has been the subject of conservation, imaging and scholarship, in order to better read the texts. The Archimedes Palimpsest project, as it is called, has shed new light on Archimedes and revealed new texts from the ancient world. It has also generated a great deal of public curiosity, as well as the interest of scholars throughout the world.

Dr. William Noel, is Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, a position he took up in 1997. He received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Cambridge University England.  Among the Positions he has held are Director of Studies in the History of Art, Downing College, Cambridge University and Assistant Curator of Manuscripts, The J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

This presentation is in conjunction with the current exhibition “Lost and Found: The Secrets of Archimedes” at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. The exhibition will be on until January 1st, 2012.

For more information, please visit: http://thewalters.org/exhibitions/archimedes/

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