William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes
윌리엄 노엘: 아르키메데스의 잃어버린 문서를 밝히다
William Noel is a curator who believes museums should make their collections free and available on the Internet. Full bio
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중세의 서기들이 복사하고
알 수 있는 모든 건
비테르보에서 말이죠
필사본들을 일일이 분해했습니다
우리는 기도서 하나만을 가지고 있는거죠
안전하게 보관하고 싶었던 거죠
만들고 싶었던 겁니다
진짜로 읽으려는 사람은 많지 않겠지만,
왁스를 긁어내는 수밖에 없었어요
말로 설명은 힘들지만
가지고 걱정하진 않지만
포함하고 있을 수도 있었어요
두 개의 사진이 있죠
다른 사진에서는 환하게 나오는 거죠
뚫고 촬영을 할 수 없었을 겁니다
뭘 하려 했는지 몰랐죠.
정사각형을 만들 수 있습니다
아테네 연설가였습니다
필리포스 왕과 싸우게 됩니다
올라가 있습니다
데이터의 가치를 아는 사람일 것입니다.
물건들을 모으려는 사람들이
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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