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The Archimedes Palimpsest (pen & ink on vellum) (see also 491773-84)

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1544 AD (C16th AD)

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Original codex Byzantine, probably Constantinople, c.950 Copy of an otherwise unknown work of the ancient mathematician, physicist, and engineer Archimedes (c.287-212 BC) of Syracuse and other authors. In 1229 the original Archimedes codex was unbound, scraped,washed and overwritten with a Christian liturgical text. 'On the Equilibrium of Planes'; 'On Floating Bodies; The Method of Mechanical Theorems; On Spiral Lines; On the Sphere and the Cylinder; On the Measurement of the Circle; Stomachion, all in Greek. upper text: Euchologion, in Greek, 12th century

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