Google’s Gemini 3.0 Pro helps solve longstanding mystery in the Nuremberg Chronicle
1 min readGoogle LLC’s Gemini 3.0 Pro large language model has delivered a notable advance in multimodal reasoning by helping decode a long-unexplained handwritten annotation in a 500-year-old copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle.
The Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in 1493, is considered one of the most important illustrated books of the early modern period. A particular surviving leaf contains four small circular annotations, known as roundels, that are filled with abbreviated Latin text and Roman numerals that have left scholars stumped as to their meaning for centuries. Though the printed text itself is well-understood, the meaning of the marginal notes had remained unresolved.