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LOCATION:Auditorium of Genetics/Biotech
SUMMARY:Can X-rays Trace the Origins of Printing?\, Graduate Program E
 vent\, Minhal Gardezi\, Dept of Physics
DESCRIPTION:Minhal's WN@TL presentation is being re-recorded for PBS W
 isconsin's University Place! In addition to learning about her cool wo
 rk\, you can help fill the audience to make it look like her talk was 
 as popular as it really was (which it was! just a few months ago).<br>
 \n<br>\nAbstract:<br>\n<br>\nWith the advent of the Gutenberg printing
  press in the mid 15th century came a boom in literacy\, revolutionizi
 ng the way Europeans standardized and disseminated information\, and e
 stablishing the printing press as one of humanity’s most important i
 nventions. While multiple original Gutenberg Bibles have been preserve
 d to the present day\, surprisingly little is known about the actual p
 ress itself\, leaving several unanswered questions about the origins o
 f printing.<br>\n<br>\nHowever\, Gutenberg’s press is only a fractio
 n of the story of early human print. While the first Gutenberg Bibles 
 were being print\, thousands of miles away\, Korean artisans were buil
 ding upon hundreds of years of diverse printing experience. The earlie
 st known preserved document printed on a moveable type printing press 
 is a Korean Buddhist text called Jikji\, printed in 1377\, nearly 80 y
 ears before Gutenberg’s Bibles. A wealth of documents proceeding Jik
 ji remain preserved\, and their study is critical to understanding ear
 ly human print.<br>\n<br>\nThe questions remain: How were early Easter
 n and Western printing presses constructed? And how\, if at all\, were
  they connected? Here we bring a physicist’s perspective to the inve
 stigation. We use synchrotron-generated X-rays to study the makeup of 
 early printed pages from both regions\, including leaves of an origina
 l Gutenberg Bible and a Korean Confucius text. Collaborating with a la
 rge team of scholars from around the globe\, we seek to shed new light
  (literally) on the origins of print.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=8255
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