Greek astronomer Hipparchus’ map of the stars — thought to be the first attempt to map the entire sky — has long been considered lost. Not anymore.
The manuscript that concealed the fragments was a palimpsest, or a parchment that had been erased and reused, called the. The codex probably comes from the monastery of Saint Catherine of Sinai in Egypt, and most of it is currently housed at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.
This detail of the codex shows the original writing in ordinary light, with some shadows of the undertext visible behind it. Williams reached out to Gysembergh and historian Emanuel Zingg of Sorbonne University in Paris for help. Gysembergh immediately thought of Hipparchus. To test the idea that the fragment was part of Hipparchus’ catalog, Gysembergh and colleagues first painstakingly translated the revealed passage. “A lot of it was, ‘Can you read this? I can’t,’” Gysembergh says. “We would struggle over every letter, every numeral.”
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