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I Pointed AI at 400 Years of Archives. It Found a Forgotten Meteorites and More

The author, Jesse Waites, used an AI to analyze 400 years of archives from the Royal Society and discovered a forgotten meteorite and other previously unknown historical information. The archives were digitized and made available through the Royal Society's online collection. The AI was able to identify and extract relevant information from the digitized archives, including a 17th-century account of a meteorite that was previously unknown to modern science. The AI also found other previously unknown historical information, including a record of a woman who was a fellow of the Royal Society in the 17th century, which is a rare occurrence for the time period.

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