guy Posted March 22 Report Share Posted March 22 (edited) A page of the work of Archimedes, written in AD 900, has been discovered on a palimpsest re-used as a Christian prayer book. There have been previous posts about other palimpsests (see below): [Palimpsest: a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.] A French researcher, Victor Gysembergh of CNRS, has rediscovered one of the three missing pages from the famous Archimedes Palimpsest, a medieval manuscript containing rare copies of Archimedes' mathematical works. The page was unexpectedly found in the archives of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois, after Gysembergh jokingly searched the city's manuscript catalog. The rediscovered leaf is a 10th-century copy of Archimedes' treatise "On the Sphere and the Cylinder," containing geometric diagrams and text that match photographs taken in 1906 by scholar Johan Heiberg. The manuscript had been overwritten in the Middle Ages as a Christian prayer book (a typical palimpsest), and the page also contains a later drawing added in the 1900s to increase its value. https://phys.org/news/2026-03-lost-page-legendary-archimedes-palimpsest.html Edited March 22 by guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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