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Archimedes Palimpsest

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Authors Archimedes
Original language Medieval Greek
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Date of Upd.
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About Archimedes Palimpsest


The Archimedes Palimpsest is a parchment codex palimpsest, which originally was a 10th-century Byzantine Greek copy of an otherwise unknown work of Archimedes of Syracuse and other authors. It was overwritten with a Christian religious text by 13th-century monks.

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