Archimedes

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Biographies

 

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Kyle C

 

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July 8, 2015

 

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University

 

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The book was relocated to Jerusalem, where a monk copied it and stored it in the library. Unfortunately, during the Dark Ages, where the pursuit of science and mathematics gave way to blind faith in religion, a monk ran out of paper. He happened across The Method, and decided to purge the parchment of its original text in order to make room for a religious text...
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He happened across The Method, and decided to purge the parchment of its original text in order to make room for a religious text. He cut the book along its binding, and washed the pages until the text was barely visible. He then wrote the new text over that of Archimedes at a perpendicular angle. The Palimpsest was kept safely hidden until 1906, when it was rediscovered—completely by chance—by Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg, who happened to be looking through the religious texts in the library...
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