Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Archimedes Palimpsest is a parchment codex palimpsest, which originally was a 10th-century Byzantine Greek copy of an otherwise unknown work of Archimedes of Syracuse and other authors. It was overwritten with a Christian religious text by 13th-century monks. The erasure was incomplete, and Archimedes' work is now readable after scientific and scholarly work from 1998 to 2008 using digital processing of images produced by ultraviolet, infrared, visible and raking light, and X-ray.The Palimpsest is the only known copy of \"Stomachion\" and \"The Method of Mechanical Theorems\" and contains the only known copy of \"On Floating Bodies\" in Greek."@en }
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- Archimedes_Palimpsest abstract "The Archimedes Palimpsest is a parchment codex palimpsest, which originally was a 10th-century Byzantine Greek copy of an otherwise unknown work of Archimedes of Syracuse and other authors. It was overwritten with a Christian religious text by 13th-century monks. The erasure was incomplete, and Archimedes' work is now readable after scientific and scholarly work from 1998 to 2008 using digital processing of images produced by ultraviolet, infrared, visible and raking light, and X-ray.The Palimpsest is the only known copy of \"Stomachion\" and \"The Method of Mechanical Theorems\" and contains the only known copy of \"On Floating Bodies\" in Greek.".