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Lost page of the Archimedes Palimpsest identified in Blois, central France

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Lost page of the Archimedes Palimpsest identified in Blois, central France

via @InistCNRS

edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-lost-page-archimedes-palimpsest-blois.html

Archimedes at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2545

#books #archeology #mathematics

https://phys.org/news/2026-03-lost-page-archimedes-palimpsest-blois.html phys.org
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Secret Squirrel@mastodon.social ·

@gutenberg_org @InistCNRS So cool. In one way, reusing the velum obscured so much. In another, it saved manuscripts that might have been completely lost.

Project Gutenberg@mastodon.social ·

@quite There is a better image at Wikipedia but it's under copyright

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimed

Archimedes Palimpsest - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org