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
Comments (2)
@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.
@quite There is a better image at Wikipedia but it's under copyright
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest
Archimedes Palimpsest - Wikipedia
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