Lost Page from Archimedes Manuscript Found in Museum with Hidden Text Beneath Illustration
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Quick summary: This story highlights recent developments related to greece, showing how constructive action can lead to meaningful results. Missing pages from Archimedes Palimpsest © Blois, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Inv. 73.7.52. Photographie IRHT-CNRS A page from the legendary Archimedes Palimpsest, considered lost for several decades, have been identified by a French national researcher at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois. The leaf contains a passage from the treatise
On the Sphere and the Cylinder, Book I, Propositions 39 to 41, much of which remains largely legible on the more than 1,500-year-old parchment. It was identified in the museum’s collection by Victor Gysembergh, a researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), as being the missing page …
