Archimedes Palimpsest - http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/mediace...
Oct 17, 2010
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"The sheepskin parchment originally contained a 10th century Greek text, which was erased by a 13th century scribe who replaced it with prayers. Seven hundred years later, a forger painted gilded pictures of the Evangelists on top of the faded words.
Underneath it all, however, is an exceptional treasure — the oldest surviving copy of works by the ancient Greek mathematician and engineer Archimedes of Syracuse, who lived in the 3rd century BC."
- mkz
"About 80% of the text had been transcribed and translated in the 1910s after it was rediscovered in an Istanbul monastery, but since then much of it became unreadable again because of deterioration.
Fully deciphering its mysteries has had to wait for advanced technologies, some of which had never been applied to ancient manuscripts."
- mkz
Kitap: http://ff.im/DlNnK
- mkz
William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes - http://www.youtube.com/watch... (Tepedeki link de ölmüş, galiba buraya taşınmış: http://archimedespalimpsest.org/links... | http://archimedespalimpsest.org/about... Mezar hikayesi: http://ff.im/sb1Rt)
- mkz
Gugul Books'a düşmüş - http://books.google.com/books...
- mkz
Şu da kitabın İstanbul'da bulunmasının haberi (1907 tarihli): http://query.nytimes.com/mem...
- Ahmet Yükseltürk
Süpermiş Ahmet.
- mkz
Süper!
- f(z)