Links for the Archimedes Palimpsest
Inside the Archimedes Palimpsest. In October 1998, a battered manuscript of parchment leaves sold for $2 million to an anonymous bidder at auction. The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes...
Three YouTube videos.
  1. The story of the Archimedes Palimpsest 8:45.
  2. The Archimedes Palimpsest 1:04:05. Google Tech Talk by William Noel.
  3. William Noel "Infinite Possibilities": Reading between the lines of the Archimedes Palimpsest. 1:13:42.
Walters Art Museum site about the Archimedes Palimpsest
The subject of this website is a manuscript of extraordinary importance to the history of science, the Archimedes Palimpsest.
RIT site about the Archimedes Palimpsest
RIT is involved in the effort to decipher the Archimedes Palimpsest
using state of the art digital image technology.
Describes in great detail how to make and read a palimpsest.
Wikipedia article about the Archimedes Palimpsest
Placed under X-ray gaze, Archimedes manuscript yields secrets lost to time
Stanford Report, May 19, 2005.
The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem v. Christies’s Inc., 1999
U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13257 (S.D. N.Y. 1999)

The unsuccessful legal attempt by the Greek Orthodox Church
to block the sale of the Archimedes Palimpsest.
THE DIGITAL ARCHIMEDES PALIMPSEST
This has a link to the Google Book version.

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