As George F. Simmons states in his book Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics, published in 1992: The Romans had so little interest in mathematics that Cicero’s act of respect in ...

Thanks to the ingenuity of Archimedes, Syracuse was invulnerable. The Romans, however, were waging a life and death war against the Carthaginians and Syracuse, they concluded, favoured their enemies.

The Palimpsest, a writing of Archimedes once thought lost to history, has been revealed through the advanced use of a ...

Around 200 years later, a monk reused the manuscript to make a prayer book. Finished in 1229 and likely made in Jerusalem, this manuscript became known as the Archimedes Palimpsest.

The oldest known copy of Archimedes’ work lies hidden under the pages of a 13th century prayer book. For years, scientists and scholars tried to decipher what ancient script they could. Now, new ...

Then, 700 years ago, a monk needed parchment for a new prayer book. He pulled the copy of Archimedes’ book off the shelf, cut the pages in half, rotated them 90 degrees, and scraped the surface ...

Tomb built for Alexander the Great's best friend is aligned with winter solstice, ... Italy from June 8-10. The conference proceedings appear in a book titled "The Genius of Archimedes ...

A monk reuses Archimedes' manuscript for a prayer book, creating the Palimpsest. This becomes the only copy of Archimedes' manuscript to survive to the present day. c. 1400-1800 ...

Putting Archimedes in a tomb. One such ancient Greek book was that containing “The Method”, “The Floating Bodies” and “The Stomachion” of Archimedes, which ended up in the library of a Greek monastery ...