Ancient past via Webcast

Iria · Aug 5, 2006, 08:08 PM

Source: SFGate
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In a real-world back-to-the-future scenario Friday, researchers at Stanford University used the Internet to broadcast across the world the decoding of an ancient mathematics text, written by one of the founding fathers of calculus -- without which there would be no Internet.
The focus of all the attention was a manuscript -- written by ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes -- called "The Method of Mechanical Theorems," and it included as many diagrams as it did words. New letters, words and partial equations were discovered in the text Friday by researchers at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Menlo Park by zapping the fragile 10th century parchment with a high-powered X-ray beam.

Aug 5, 2006, 08:08 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Ancient past via Webcast Source: SFGate ____________ In a real-world back-to-the-future scenario Friday, researchers at Stanford University used the Internet to broadcast across the world the decoding of an ancient mathematics text, written by one of the founding fathers of calculus -- without which there would be no Internet. The focus of all the attention was a manuscript -- written by ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes -- called "The Method of Mechanical Theorems," and it included as many diagrams as it did words. New letters, words and partial equations were discovered in the text Friday by researchers at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Menlo Park by zapping the fragile 10th century parchment with a high-powered X-ray beam.