A 3rd Century Secret Ink and Its Reception. A Study of the Stable Transmission of a Recipe that Never Worked
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angličtina
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A 3rd Century Secret Ink and Its Reception. A Study of the Stable Transmission of a Recipe that Never Worked
Original language description
This talk explores a question in the transmission of recipes from antiquity: what happens when the recipe never worked? I focus on a recipe for a magic ink that is able to penetrate through the shell and onto the white of a hardboiled egg without leaving any visible trace. It was transmitted reliably for almost two thousand years but ended up muddled and misattributed at the height of the information age. The story involves Papal Inquisitors and Wikipedia editors, American revolutionaries and puzzled magicians—even a cash prize from an American professor for anyone who can get the ink to work. It also shows in real time how a moment in history can change the way we understand the past.
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O - Miscellaneous
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GM21-30494M" target="_blank" >GM21-30494M: Alchemies of Scent. Reconstructing the Practices of Ancient Greco-Egyptian Perfumery: An Experimental Approach to the History of Science</a><br>
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I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2023
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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů