A 3rd Century Secret Ink and Its Reception. A Study of the Stable Transmission of a Recipe that Never Worked

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

A 3rd Century Secret Ink and Its Reception. A Study of the Stable Transmission of a Recipe that Never Worked

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

A 3rd Century Secret Ink and Its Reception. A Study of the Stable Transmission of a Recipe that Never Worked

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

O - Ostatní výsledky

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GM21-30494M" target="_blank" >GM21-30494M: Alchymie vůní. Rekonstrukce starověkých řecko-egyptských parfumářských postupů: Experimentální přístup k dějinám vědy</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů