Archimedes on Google Books and other interfaces

[Will Noel]

"The Archimedes Palimpsest" on Google Books is but one way in which the dataset at Archimedespalimpsest.net can be used, but it is a cool one. The images used are generated from the multispectral images and processed to strip away the prayerbook texts to reveal the undertexts in the folios. These pages have not been seen like this since they were erased and written over by Johannes Myronas in 1229. They are not the most legible images that the team has produced, but they are the most dramatic. And they also reveal the diagrams particularly well. Lets hope someone develops an interface soon that allows viewers to see the XML transcription next to the lines of text in the images. Is anybody up for this?