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Eine neue Archimedeshandschrift

Johan Ludvig Heiberg, 1907. Hermes 42, 235-303.

Heiberg's first report of the palimpsest he examined in Constantinople in 1906: parts of four known treatises, the lost Method, the Greek On Floating Bodies and a fragment of the Stomachion.

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What it's used for here

The first published claim that the prayer book hides Archimedes.

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Heiberg, J. L. (1907). Eine neue Archimedeshandschrift. Hermes 42, 235-303. https://archimedespalimpsest.org/about/scholarship/scholarship_wilson1.php
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