Multispectral imaging of the Archimedes palimpsest

Multispectral imaging techniques are being applied to improve the readability of the text in a tenth-century manuscript that includes seven treatises of Archimedes. The manuscript was erased and overwritten about 200 years later with the text of a Christian prayer book. This talk reports on the resu...

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Published in32nd Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop, 2003. Proceedings pp. 111 - 116
Main Authors Easton, R.L., Knox, K.T., Christens-Barry, W.A.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2003
Subjects
Glass
History
Ink
Libraries
Mathematics
Multispectral imaging
Optical imaging
Text recognition
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Summary:Multispectral imaging techniques are being applied to improve the readability of the text in a tenth-century manuscript that includes seven treatises of Archimedes. The manuscript was erased and overwritten about 200 years later with the text of a Christian prayer book. This talk reports on the results of the multispectral imaging techniques used on the Archimedes palimpsest.
ISBN:9780769520292
0769520294
DOI:10.1109/AIPR.2003.1284258