William Noel Interview

May 27, 2008. 

William Noel, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the Walters Art Museum, talks about the book he co-authored with Reviel Netz entitled: The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the true Genius of Antiquity’s Greatest Scientist, and the ten-year project to uncover one of the most important documents in the history of Western science, the Archimedes Palimpsest.

39:24 min.

Listen

http://artlibrary.vassar.edu/wvkr/audio/Noel.mp3

 

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