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

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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Archimedes stumbles upon Voller and Klaber. He takes Voller’s watch and the Dial. Indy is amazed at what he sees and decides that he wants to stay in 214 B.C. Helena begs him to reconsider.

The technique is particularly useful for probing the palimpsest because the ink used by the scribe to record Archimedes' work contains iron. "When the X-rays hit an iron atom it emits a characteristic ...