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Comment on The Archimedes Palimpsest by ESTHER
["Tim O'Neill"]
Comments for History for Atheists
This is a thirteenth century manuscript of liturgical prayers from Orthodox rites called a Euchologion which, in 1899, Johan Heiberg realised was at least in part a palimpsest of Archimedes – i.e. the text of an earlier copy of works by Archimedes had been erased and the parchment recycled, with the Euchologion texts written over it.