2023-09-12 18:18:28
Tuesday / 27 / Safar / 1445 AH – 21:16 – Tuesday, September 12, 2023 21:16 Researchers have uncovered a manuscript hidden on a recycled piece of parchment paper (a thin skin on which one writes), believed to have been written by the Greek mathematician and astronomer, Claudius Ptolemy. Newsweek magazine reported that a team of researchers at the Sorbonne and New York Universities decoded a text detailing the design and use of an ancient astronomical observation instrument. According to the magazine, the situation became much worse for subsequent researchers by applying chemical treatment to the pages that were from The writing is supposed to stand out but in reality it is smudged dark brown. Scientists began a detailed analysis of the manuscript in 2020, using multi-spectral imaging techniques, and experts were able to read a description of an astronomical instrument called a “meteoroscope,” but the details of its design are still unknown. The manuscript was written in two parts, the first of which provides a detailed description of how and what the instrument should be made. specified, while the second is devoted to methods of using them.
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