Jones Seminar: Modern Imaging Technologies and the Forthcoming New 'Golden Age' in Cultural Heritage Studies

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Modern imaging and material analysis technologies hold the promise of rediscovery of significant cultural heritage, suggesting that we are on the verge of a new Golden Age of historical studies. These technologies include spectral imaging (both multispectral and hyperspectral, MSI and HSI) and X-ray Fluorescence imaging (XRFi), and others, but the talk will concentrate on these. The technologies are briefly introduced, but most of the talk is devoted to specific projects, including studies of palimpsests with erased texts by Archimedes, Apuleius, and Hipparchus, the 1491 World Map by Martellus, the Erdapfel globe in Nuremberg, and the New Finds palimpsests at St. Catherine's Monastery.

Hosted by Professor George Cybenko.

About the Speaker(s)

Roger Easton Jr.
Professor of Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology

After obtaining a BS degree in astronomy from Haverford College and MS and PhD degrees in optical sciences from the University of Arizona, Roger L. Easton Jr. has held a faculty position at the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science since 1986. Since the middle 1990s, his research has focused on the application of modern imaging technologies to recover text from damaged or erased manuscripts. He led the optical imaging team for the Archimedes Palimpsest from 2000-2012 and has also been on the imaging teams for the palimpsests at St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, the ca. 1491 world map by Henricus Martellus Germanus at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, the Dexippus and Herodian palimpsests at the National Library of Austria, the Codex Climaci Rescriptus, the Zacynthius Palimpsest at Cambridge University Library, and the identification of the previously unknown text in the Apuleius palimpsest at the Biblioteca Capitolare in Verona.

Contact

For more information, contact Amos Johnson at amos.l.johnson@dartmouth.edu.