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Lost page of the Archimedes Palimpsest identified in Blois, central France
A CNRS researcher confirmed the page as leaf 123 from Archimedes’ treatise, with plans for advanced imaging to reveal hidden ancient text beneath a 20th-century illumination.
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Lost Page from Archimedes Manuscript rediscovered in France
A page long believed to be missing from the famed Archimedes Palimpsest has been rediscovered at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois, France, offering scholars new opportunities to study one of antiquity’s most important mathematical manuscripts. The folio was identified by Victor Gysembergh, a researcher with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), during work at the Blois museum. Initial analysis confirms the page corresponds …
A French researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) has discovered at the Museum of Fine Arts in Blois (France) a page of the Palimpsest of Archimedes, one of the most important ancient manuscripts. This was indicated by the CNRS on its website where he points out that this page was believed to have been lost for a long time. An initial analysis confirms that it is page 123 of the Palimpsest and contains a passage from the …
The parchment, which lay quietly in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, was identified as one of the missing sheets of the famous palimpsest of the greatest mathematician of antiquity.
Lost page of the Archimedes Palimpsest identified in Blois, central France
A page long believed to have been lost from the Archimedes Palimpsest, one of the most important surviving manuscripts of antiquity, has been identified at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois, central France, by a CNRS researcher. Initial analysis confirms that the page corresponds to page 123 of the Palimpsest and contains a passage from Archimedes' treatise "On the Sphere and the Cylinder," Book I, Propositions 39 to 41. The discovery is present…
An expert from the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) has discovered at the Blois Museum of Fine Arts a page of the Palimpses...
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