Treasured 16th-Century 'Lenox Globe' Gets a Digital Makeover
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 11:50
in Physics & Chemistry
Huddled in a dark room at the New York Public Library, a cartographer, a curator of rare books, and a handful of scientists crowded around a camera ringed by colored lights. All eyes were trained on a small, copper sphere about the size of a grapefruit: T