William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes
William Noel : Révéler le codex perdu d'Archimède
William Noel is a curator who believes museums should make their collections free and available on the Internet. Full bio
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sous leur forme originale.
en tant que mathématicien,
en 1564.
dans la bibliothèque du pape,
en 1311.
du parchemin,
de ces sept manuscrits.
par cet homme :
de A et de B;
dans le monde entier.
sur ce manuscrit.
des petits morceaux,
les minuscules fragments
du manuscrit.
gammes d'ondes,
trame numérique,
et clair sur l'autre
d'une autre façon,
un rayon X qui arrive
d'un atome.
d'une couche supérieure
très puissante.
dans le faisceau.
du système solaire.
des choses
des atomes de fer,
de ces 14 segments.
en mathématiques.
et fascinante des mathématiques.
du 4e siècle avant Jésus-Christ.
Philippe de Macédoine.
Alexandre le Grand,
dans les mémoires,
de son éloquence
venue de l'Antiquité,
c'est tout à fait exceptionnel.
que nous avons recueillies,
« Creative Commons »,
à n'importe quelles fins commerciales.
et ce genre de chose.
sur le Web,
de la Bibliothèque nationale Y,
toutes sortes de cartes
de se réaliser.
cette approche
dans Google
par exemple,
de mon institution.
et de ce genre de choses.
c'est ceci :
sous des licences libres,
et merveilleuses
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
William Noel - Curator, rare book scholarWilliam Noel is a curator who believes museums should make their collections free and available on the Internet.
Why you should listen
William Noel is the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the Walters Art Museum. But for someone who spends the majority of his time analyzing ancient and medieval artifacts, he also embraces social media and stresses its value even for the oldest, most established academic and cultural institutions. Noel believes passionately that institutions should free their digital data.
Since 1999 Noel has spearheaded the conservation of a manuscript known as the Archimedes Palimpsest. The palimpsest is a unique Byzantine prayer book made up of parchments which contain hidden writings from three original previously-unknown texts: treatises written by Archimedes; works by the 4th-century B.C. Attic Orator Hyperides; and 3rd-century commentary on Aristotle’s Categories, by an unknown author. Using a powerful particle accelerator Noel and his team were able to uncover the hidden texts and publish all their images and findings on the Internet, available to anyone for free under a Creative Commons license.
Noel currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where he curates at the Walters, working to ensure that the public has free digital access to his collection.
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