After Decades of Mystery, Researchers Locate a Missing Page of the Archimedes Palimpsest
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After Decades of Mystery, Researchers Locate a Missing Page of the Archimedes Palimpsest
A newly identified Archimedes Palimpsest leaf could help recover lost ancient mathematics using modern imaging techniques. A page from one of the world’s most important ancient manuscripts has resurfaced after being missing for decades. Researchers have identified a long-lost leaf from the Archimedes Palimpsest at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois, France, a discovery that [...]
Researchers have identified a missing page from the Archimedes Palimpsest at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois, France. The leaf, which had been missing for decades, is page 123 of the manuscript and contains excerpts from the mathematical treatise On the Sphere and Cylinder. Identification of page 123 of the Palimpsest The rediscovered page was confirmed as page 123 of the Archimedes Palimpsest by Victor Gysembergh, a researcher at the CNRS. In…
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