mumbo-jumbo, non-invasive, non-destructive

Multispectral imaging is one of the many tools the British Library’s Conservation Science team use to non-invasively and non-destructively increase the body of knowledge on collection items for scholars, curators and conservators.

In 2016, multispectral imaging revealed a previously hidden figure in one of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks. Find out how this discovery was (literally) brought to light: http://bit.ly/2vqs9Jv #BLTreasures

Just as the clergy in the Middle Ages spoke in Latin to give their words an air of authority, management theorists speak in mumbo-jumbo

mumbo jumbo

NOUN

mass nouninformal 

• Language or ritual causing or intended to cause confusion or bewilderment.

  ‘a maze of legal mumbo jumbo’

Origin

Mid 18th century (as Mumbo Jumbo, denoting a supposed African idol): of unknown origin; the current sense dates from the late 19th century.