Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=VqtEppZmjfw
https://trisquel.info/files/palimpsest.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest
It's referred to as "Codex C". Codices A and B were lost hundreds of years ago.
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I've never heard of a bishop with a title like "Leo the Geometer". That by itself makes this a very curious find.
What about "Archie the Archeologist"? Have you ever heard of him?
EDIT: I don't think he was a bishop, though, rather a archtrishop or maybe even a quadshop. He's famous for having written the Lastus Codicillus Trolli Longei Triskeliae, at some point in the 8th century, based on ancient Mesopotamian laws he had found on unearthed tablets. There is an ongoing controversy about whether any rules added after the Lastus Codicillus should be enforced at all.
I've heard of his boss, Saint IGNUcious.
> a bishop with a title like "Leo the Geometer"
Not sure why, but the wikipedia article about him makes no mention of "the Geometer":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_the_Mathematician
Maybe people don't know any more what a "geometer" is, or conflate it with "geometrid".
This rediscovery probably explains why there have been much fewer shipwrecks in the past decade.
"Big literary find in Constantinople", or how the New York Times saw Turkey in 1907. Good thing the NYT came to a more nuanced view of the rest of the world since. Or did it?
"The destiny of the Ottoman is completed (...) before they commence their final retreat to the desert from which, in the mysterious providence of God, they were suffered to emerge, in order to destroy the eastern half of the civilized world." No less.
Compare with: "Following the sack of Constantinople by Western crusaders in 1204, the manuscript was taken to an isolated Greek monastery in Palestine, possibly to protect it from occupying crusaders, who often equated Greek script with heresy against their Latin church and either burned or looted many such texts." [1] So much for the "civilized world".
Not sure how Archimedes would have felt about someone calling his works "literary". Uncivilized?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest
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