Deciphering Livingstone’s 1871 Field Diary
Gjersø, J. F.
(2011).
Deciphering Livingstone’s 1871 Field Diary.
Jonas Fossli Gjersø belongs to LSE’s Department of International History. He reports on how spectral analysis, which is essentially photographing the document with different light wavelengths to isolate the written text from the newsprint, was used to decipher explorer David Livingstone’s 1871 diary.
| Item Type | Online resource |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2011 The Author |
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 14 Feb 2017 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/69451 |