Fundamentally, analytical bibliography is concerned with objective, physical analysis and history of a book while descriptive bibliography employs all data that analytical bibliography furnishes and then codifies it with a view to identifying the ideal copy or form of a book that most nearly represents the printer s initial conception and intention in printing.
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These include the records of physical analysis to determine age, and a full-size digital photograph to reveal the scope of draftsmanship obscured by the darkened silk . ( The details that emerge are amazing . ) Also on hand, borrowed from the British Museum, is a bona-fide Zhang Daqian forgery, a " 10th-century " landscape actually cooked up sometime around 1951.
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Student projects that survived the rigours of publishing covered a wide range of topics from accelerator depth profile dating of bones and teeth, seasonal dating of shells using oxygen isotopes, experimental archaeology, thermoluminescence dating of oven stones, physical analysis of pottery, trace element analysis of obsidian sources with XRF, dating of human bone with ESR, and diet reconstruction from atomic absorption spectroscopy of human bone.
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Smith goes on at length to discuss particular points of the music content, an aspect that Thompson deliberately did not discuss, since she recognised that physical analysis must precede content analysis Without supplying corroborative physical evidence aside from scribal issues that do not directly address or refute Thompson's discoveries, Smith feels that " there is no reason to discard the hypothesis that Tregian was the scribe ."
