In April 2007, it was reported that imaging analysis had discovered an early commentary on Aristotle's Categories in the Archimedes Palimpsest, and Robert Sharples suggested Alexander as the most likely author.

Multispectral imaging, undertaken by researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University, retrieved some four-fifths of the text of the Archimedes Palimpsest.

* the Archimedes Palimpsest, a work of the great Syracusan mathematician copied onto parchment in the 10th century and overwritten by a liturgical text in the 12th century

* PBS NOVA: " The Archimedes Palimpsest " Click on " What is a Palimpsest?

In 2002 Natalie Tchernetska of Trinity College, Cambridge discovered fragments of two speeches of Hypereides, which had been considered lost, in the Archimedes Palimpsest.

In 2006, the Archimedes Palimpsest project together with imagers at Stanford University used powerful X-ray fluorescence imaging to read the final pages of the Palimpsest, which contained the material by Hypereides.

William Noel, the curator of manuscripts and rare books at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland and the director of the Archimedes Palimpsest project, called Hypereides " one of the great foundational figures of Greek democracy and the golden age of Athenian democracy, the foundational democracy of all democracy.

* In 1998, Christie's in New York sold the famous Archimedes Palimpsest after the conclusion of a lawsuit in which its ownership was disputed.

Ostomachion is a dissection puzzle in the Archimedes Palimpsest ( shown after Suter from a different source ; this version must be stretched to twice the width to conform to the Palimpsest )

* The Archimedes Palimpsest Project Web Page

* Will Noel: Restoring The Archimedes Palimpsest ( YouTube ), Ignite ( O ' Reilly ), August 2009

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For example, the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem filed a lawsuit in New York, decided in 1999, against Christie's Auction House, disputing the ownership of the Archimedes Palimpsest.

His translation of the celebrated Archimedes Palimpsest, however, was based on a transcription that had lacunae, which scholars such as Reviel Netz have been able to fill in to a certain extent, by exploiting modern scientific methods of imagery not available in Heath's time.

When Heath's Works of Archimedes was published in 1897, the Archimedes Palimpsest had not been extensively explored.

The work was originally thought to be lost, but was rediscovered in the celebrated Archimedes Palimpsest.

* Archimedes Palimpsest

The Walters Art Museum is where the Archimedes Palimpsest is on loan from a private collector for conservation and spectral imaging studies.

* Archimedes Palimpsest

According to Archimedes in the Sandreckoner ( 2. 1 ), Aristarchus of Samos estimated the distance to the Sun to be 10, 000 times the Earth's radius ( the true value is about 23, 000 ).

Archimedes is generally considered to be the greatest mathematician of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time.

However, an episode of Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections relating to the Keck Observatory ( whose reflector glass is based on the Archimedes ' Mirror ) did successfully use a much smaller curved mirror to burn a wooden model, though not made of the same quality of materials as in the MythBusters effort.

Bryozoa are abundant in some regions ; the fenestellids including Fenestella, Polypora, and Archimedes, so named because it is in the shape of an Archimedean screw.

Archimedes used to demand just one firm and immovable point in order to shift the entire earth ; so I too can hope for great things if I manage to find just one thing, however slight, that is certain and unshakable.

This is effectively Archimedes ' principle as generated by centrifugal force as opposed to being generated by gravity.

The trammel of Archimedes or ellipsograph is a mechanical device that implements this principle.

Proclus introduces Euclid only briefly in his fifth-century Commentary on the Elements, as the author of Elements, that he was mentioned by Archimedes, and that when King Ptolemy asked if there was a shorter path to learning geometry than Euclid's Elements, " Euclid replied there is no royal road to geometry.

" Although the purported citation of Euclid by Archimedes has been judged to be an interpolation by later editors of his works, it is still believed that Euclid wrote his works before those of Archimedes.

* Archimedes said δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω, which is sometimes translated as “ Give me a fixed point and I will move the world .”

Archimedes ( 287-212 BC ), of Syracuse, Sicily, when it was a Greek city-state, is often considered to be the greatest of the Greek mathematicians, and occasionally even named as one of the three greatest of all time ( along with Isaac Newton and Carl Friedrich Gauss ).

This is the law of the lever, which was proven by Archimedes using geometric reasoning.

It is not known whether Archimedes himself had a method of solution.

An ordered field K is the real number field if it satisfies the axiom of Archimedes and every Cauchy sequence of K converges within K.

An exception is the Archimedes palimpsest ( see below ).

This formula was first derived by Archimedes, who showed that the volume of a sphere is 2 / 3 that of a circumscribed cylinder.

This formula was first derived by Archimedes, based upon the fact that the projection to the lateral surface of a circumscribed cylinder ( i. e. the Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection ) is area-preserving.

The city is notable for its rich Greek history, culture, amphitheatres, architecture, and as the birthplace of the preeminent mathematician and engineer Archimedes.

It is believed to have fallen due to a peace party opening a small door in the wall to negotiate a peace, but the Romans charged through the door and took the city, killing Archimedes in the process.

Archimedes was possibly the first scientist that is known to have described nature with axioms ( or principles ) and then deduce new results from them.

The gravitational force acting on the hydrometer is simply its weight, mg. From the Archimedes buoyancy principle, the buoyancy force acting on the hydrometer is equal to the weight of liquid displaced.

However ancient sources contain several accounts of techniques that foreshadow the concepts of forensic science that is developed centuries later, such as the " Eureka " legend told of Archimedes ( 287 – 212 BC ).