Surprising Renaissance Book with Hidden Text

An ancient astronomy book donated to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) may contain an undiscovered text underneath the current one. The book also includes a famous work by Nicolaus Copernicus, who postulated that the sun, not the Earth, is the center of the solar system. Students at RIT will attempt to decipher the erased words of the hidden text using imaging science. [Space.com]

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