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The Archimedes Palimpsest (pen & ink on vellum) (see also 491773-84)

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CH491774
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The Archimedes Palimpsest (pen & ink on vellum) (see also 491773-84)
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Greek School / Greek
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pen and ink on vellum
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Original codex Byzantine, probably Constantinople, c.950 Copy of an otherwise unknown work of the ancient mathematician, physicist, and engineer Archimedes (c.287-212 BC) of Syracuse and other authors. In 1229 the original Archimedes codex was unbound, scraped,washed and overwritten with a Christian liturgical text. 'On the Equilibrium of Planes'; 'On Floating Bodies; The Method of Mechanical Theorems; On Spiral Lines; On the Sphere and the Cylinder; On the Measurement of the Circle; Stomachion, all in Greek. upper text: Euchologion, in Greek, 12th century

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10th century / 12th century / Archimedes (-287 - -212) / Greece / Europe / engineer / physicist / ancient Greece / Antiquity / book / treatise / physics / religious / wisdom / mathematics / mass / spiral lines / scientific / treatise / cylinder / science / greek / floating / diagram / maths / knowledge / floating bodies / ancient greece / sphere / liturgical / manuscript / medieval / text / method / stomachion / measurement of the circle / pages / archimedes / archimedes palimpsest / classical / mathematical / page / engineering / mechanical / equilibrium of planes / folios / byzantine / method of mechanical theorems / palimpsest / folio / volume / codex / euchologion

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