Lost Archimedes Text Revealed He was Working On Calculus

Lost Archimedes Text Revealed He was Working On Calculus

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For seventy years, a prayer book moldered in the closet of a family in France, passed down from one generation to the next. Its mildewed parchment pages were stiff and contorted, tarnished by burn marks and waxy smudges. Behind the text of the prayers, faint Greek letters marched in lines up the page, with an occasional diagram disappearing into the spine.

The owners wondered if the strange book might have some value, so they took it to Christie's Auction House of London. And in 1998, Christie's auctioned it off—for two million dollars.

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I think this should to be interesting, since there's probably a lot to discover in this book.

I'm still pissed off that the Great Library of Alexandria was burned down, though.

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Awesome find! And definitely glad it was auctioned to someone who was willing to research it more, and not someone who just put it in a private collection to continue to rot away.

On a speculative note, just imagine what life would be like if Calculus had been implemented as a science 2,000 years earlier.

So sad that important information such as this can be lost for so long, but it also somewhat validates it as a science, as it was discovered, independently, thousands of years apart.

-Warlo