[păĺĭmp-sĕst́]
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The Archimedes Palimpsest is a manuscript of unique importance to the history of science. This tenth century manuscript is the unique source for two of Archimedes Treatises, The Method and Stomachion, and it is the unique source for the Greek text of On Floating Bodies. ... The Archimedes Palimpsest project, as it is called,
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The Palimpsest ... The Making of the Palimpsest ... The Archimedes Palimpsest is a medieval parchment manuscript, now consisting of 174 parchment folios. While it contains no less than seven treatises by Archimedes, calling it the Archimedes Palimpsest is a little confusing.
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A palimpsest is a manuscript page from a scroll or book that has been scraped off and used again. The word "palimpsest" comes through Latin from Greek παλιν + ψαω = ( palin "again" + psao "I scr...
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From Greek roots meaning "again-scraped." A palimpsest was a manuscript which was re-used. Presumably the original writing was no longer valued and/or easily read, and a scribe decided that the expensive parchment could be better used for something else (almost all palimpsest are parchment;
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Archimedes Palimpsest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Archimedes Palimpsest is a palimpsest on parchment in the form of a codex. It originally was a copy of an otherwise unknown work of the ancient mathematician, physicist, and engineer Archimedes ...
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In this interactive feature, see how a palimpsest is made, and follow the story of a thousand-year-old palimpsest that contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes, a Greek thinker who is regarded as the greatest mathematician of antiquity. ... The Archimedes Palimpsest; Follow the 1,000-year-long journey of...
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