Researchers virtually open and read sealed historic letters
Credits: Image: Courtesy of MIT Libraries Caption: Researchers were able to read the contents of a letter from Jacques Sennacques to his cousin Pierre Le Pers, a French merchant in The Hague. Caption: The virtual unfolding technology generates 2D and 3D reconstructions of the letter. Previous image Next image An international team of scholars has read an unopened letter from early modern Europe — without breaking its seal or damaging it in any way — using an automated computational flatte...
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