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    The Archimedes Palimpsest is a parchment codex palimpsest, originally a Byzantine Greek copy of a compilation of Archimedes and other authors. It contains...
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    lost works by Archimedes in the Archimedes Palimpsest has provided new insights into how he obtained mathematical results. Archimedes was born c. 287...
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    (estimated to be more than 80%) from the Archimedes Palimpsest. At the Walters Art Museum where the palimpsest is now conserved, the project has focused...
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    best known for his discovery of previously unknown texts in the Archimedes Palimpsest, and for his edition of Euclid's Elements that T. L. Heath translated...
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    has survived fragmentarily in an Arabic version and a copy, the Archimedes Palimpsest, of the original ancient Greek text made in Byzantine times. The...
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  • but in 1906 was rediscovered in the celebrated Archimedes Palimpsest. The palimpsest includes Archimedes' account of the "mechanical method", so called...
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  • Archimedes GNU Archimedes The Archimedean Oath, taken by some engineers 3600 Archimedes Archimedes (crater) Montes Archimedes Archimedes Palimpsest (Numerous...
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    non-acidic nature (unlike many other polymers). The use of PVAc on the Archimedes Palimpsest during the 20th century greatly hindered the task of disbinding...
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  • previously illegible texts. The Archimedes Palimpsest (further discussed below) is a famous example of this, but many other palimpsests have been rendered legible...
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    speeches of Hypereides, which had been considered lost, in the Archimedes Palimpsest. These were from two new speeches, the Against Timander and Against...
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    Koutrokois, and a delegation from the Embassy. Ancient technology Archimedes Palimpsest Astrarium Automaton Baghdad Battery Ctesibius Reverse engineering...
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  • imaging at ColourLex "Multi-spectral imaging of the Archimedes Palimpsest". The Archimedes Palimpsest Project. Retrieved 17 September 2015. Avril, Tom (May...
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    renovation and replacement of internal utilities and infrastructure. The Archimedes Palimpsest was on loan to the Walters Art Museum from a private collector for...
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    2010, 528-531. Bergmann, Uwe. "X-Ray Fluorescence Imaging of the Archimedes Palimpsest: A Technical Summary" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-09-29. Walsh, P.G. (1968)...
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    Eudoxus of Cnidus, Hippocrates of Chios, Thales and Theaetetus. With Archimedes and Apollonius of Perga, Euclid is generally considered among the greatest...
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  • of publications in mathematics. 1729 (anecdote) Adequality Archimedes Palimpsest Archimedes' use of infinitesimals Arithmetization of analysis Brachistochrone...
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  • recoveries of a lost ancient text from a palimpsest. Another famous example is the discovery of the Archimedes Palimpsest, which was used to make a prayer book...
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    Miletus created an important compilation of Archimedes' works that are copied in the Archimedes Palimpsest. In sixth-century Europe John Philoponus, a...
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    works in field, including volumes I and II of The Archimedes Palimpsest. He also co-authored The Archimedes Codex with William Noel on the same subject matter...
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  • substantial piece of work was a contribution to the study of the famous Archimedes Palimpsest, which was sold at auction in New York in 1998 for $2,000,000; the...
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    Briefer History of Time "CC BY-ND-NC 1.0" (archived 2004) "The Archimedes Palimpsest". University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Retrieved 2016-08-01. All...
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    lines. For explicit details of the method used, see Archimedes' use of infinitesimals. Archimedes of Syracuse Online version: Online version The first...
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    Evidence from the Archimedes Palimpsest (Part 1)". Sciamvs. 2: 9–29. Archimedes, The Method of Mechanical Theorems; see Archimedes Palimpsest Alexander, Amir...
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    much of the work represented by authors such as Euclid (fl. 300 BC), Archimedes (c. 287–212 BC), Apollonius (c. 240–190 BC), Hipparchus (c. 190–120 BC)...
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    English-speaking readers are aware of what Archimedes did. His translation of the celebrated Archimedes Palimpsest, however, was based on a transcription...
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    (2nd-century CE)Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback Archimedes Palimpsest – Greek parchment codex manuscript Codex Zouche-Nuttall – Pre-Columbian...
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    Sutras, used several different approximations to π {\displaystyle \pi } . Archimedes proved a formula for the area of a circle, according to which 3 10 71...
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    (Harvard University Press) 1973 "The History of the Archimedes Manuscript". The Archimedes Palimpsest Project. Retrieved 4 October 2016. Patrich, Joseph...
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    Breezeway. The SSRL facility was used to reveal hidden text in the Archimedes Palimpsest. X-rays from the synchrotron radiation lightsource caused the iron...
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    Archimedes Palimpsest was discovered in the early 20th century when a scholar revealed that seven books written by the Greek mathematician Archimedes...
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