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Catastrophes and Entropy of Cultural Properties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Michel Benarie  and
James R. Druzik
Michel Benarie
Affiliation:
20, Blvd. Jean Pain, 38000 Grenoble, France
James R. Druzik
Affiliation:
The Getty Conservation Institute, 4503 Glencoe Avenue, Marina del Rey, California 90292, USA
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Abstract

“The wear of iron teeth of time...”

“nothing is eternal”

“everything ends up in ashes”

Such poetic locutions have been with us since Biblical and Homeric times. Lately it has become fashionable to clad this commonplace insight in more scientific garb such as the Second Law of Thermodynamics

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 267: Symposium J – Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology III , 1992 , 17
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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