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Joel Kovarsky wrote:
David Bradbury wrote:
the "ink" of the Vinland Map was shown by the first scientists
permitted to study the map- the British Museum investigators in 1967,
well over a year after after the official book about it was published-
to be neither iron-gall nor any other formulation they had ever seen.
David Bradbury
That is fair enough, but the point was really more geared to the idea
that the ink would just "sit" on the parchment. There are other
studies, considering other types of ink, that would argue that other
types of inks are also not inert, and would interact with parchment
over time:
Joel Kovarsky
But as the Vinland Map ink seems to be a unique and decidedly unorthodox
formulation, the only way to find how such an ink interacts with the
parchment over time is to keep studying the Vinland Map ...
David Bradbury
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