Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...
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Medieval monks hid a lost star map and scientists are decoding it now
In a monastery library on the Sinai Peninsula, a devotional handbook by the monk John Climacus sat quietly for centuries ...
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Birth of science: Particle accelerator decodes ancient Greek star map hidden in text
Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first ...
At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park on Wednesday morning, researchers focused a powerful X-ray machine on pages of parchment from a medieval desert monastery, looking to reveal ...
Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...
There are several ancient monuments proving that our predecessors possessed knowledge of astronomy and used it for practical purposes.
History is often taught as if astronomy followed a single European arc—from Greek philosophy to Renaissance telescopes to modern science—while Africa appears absent or myth-bound. This series, “When ...
pt. 1. Setting the context. Astronomical exploration and the public imagination / B.S. Blumberg -- Perspectives on our cosmic habitat / M.J. Rees -- The growth of astrophysical understanding / M.
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