ultrafacts: The Archimedes Palimpsest is a parchment codex palimpsest, which originally was a 10th-c
ultrafacts:The Archimedes Palimpsest is a parchment codex palimpsest, which originally was a 10th-century Byzantine Greek copy of an otherwise unknown work of Archimedes of Syracuse and other authors. It was overwritten with religious text by 13th-century monks. The erasure was incomplete, and Archimedes’ work is now readable after scientific and scholarly work from 1998 to 2008 using digital processing of images produced by ultraviolet, infrared, visible and raking light, and X-ray(Fact Source) for more facts, follow Ultrafacts -- source link
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