US EditionLost page of ancient Greek text by Archimedes resurfaces in France
Victor Gysembergh of CNRS identified a missing Archimedes Palimpsest page at Musée des Beaux-Arts, Blois, revealing a passage from On the Sphere and the Cylinder.
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Long-lost Archimedes treatise work unearthed in France
A long-lost treatise by the great Greek mathematician Archimedes was discovered in a museum in France. Archimedes is best known for crying “eureka” (“I have it!“) when getting out of a bath — he noticed the water levels dropped as he did so, and realized that this gave him a way of measuring an object’s density and thus checking whether the king’s crown was made of real gold. But he is also credited with the invention of a screw water pump — sti…
As an object going up to the surface: one of the three missing pages of Archimedes' palimpsest, this 10th century manuscript containing several copies of the ancient treatises of the Greek scientist, was found in Blois by a CNRS researcher. ...
Lost Page from Archimedes Manuscript Found in Museum with Hidden Text Beneath Illustration
A page from the legendary Archimedes Palimpsest, considered lost for several decades, have been identified by a French national researcher at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois. The leaf contains a passage from the treatise On the Sphere and the Cylinder, Book I, Propositions 39 to 41, much of which remains largely legible on the […] The post Lost Page from Archimedes Manuscript Found in Museum with Hidden Text Beneath Illustration appeared first…
The more than 1000 years old, unique copy of important works by the ancient mathematician has a true odyssey behind him. Now only two out of 177 leaves are missing.
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