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aap_today at 3:09 PM6 repliesview on HN

So is there any way to actually read it? Or do i have to buy an obscure french book? can you even buy the book? Academic publishing/gatekeeping is such a joke.


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marginalia_nutoday at 6:40 PM

It's in the picture, I presume. Just gotta brush up on that Koine Greek. Or if you read Egyptian hieroglyphs already, you can use the Rosetta Stone to reconstruct the Koine Greek from first principles.

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addaontoday at 7:02 PM

This feels like a knee-jerk reaction. While it may be a relevant critique of some news releases about academic research… this one literally contains a thumbnail with a link to a sufficiently-high-resolution image of the document. You can read it by clicking on the only image in the article.

bombcartoday at 3:24 PM

494 B.C.? Empedocles’ll DMCA you if you post them!

canjobeartoday at 5:40 PM

It will probably be processed into an edited edition and then published as a book.

pfdietztoday at 4:17 PM

I'm hoping in these verses Empedocles complains about crappy copper from a Babylonian merchant.

jblitzartoday at 4:55 PM

I mean, it's still a pretty cool discovery.

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