“First we scanned a different copy of the book itself, the book that is meant to be inside the concrete,” said Argonne beamline scientist John Okasinski. “This gave us a signature to look for in the ...

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Renaissance science was a messy affair. How men like Gemma Frisius or Gerardus Mercator in the Low Countries, working in freezing temperatures and semidarkness, could produce some of the best maps ...