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Hyperides was one of the ten canonical Attic orators of the 4th century BC. Almost all of his speeches were lost in late antiquity. Three substantial portions were recovered in 2002 from the same Constantinople prayer book that preserves the Archimedes Palimpsest, using multispectral imaging.
Read the story →Roger L. Easton Jr. of the Rochester Institute of Technology led the multispectral imaging programme that recovered text from the Archimedes Palimpsest between 1999 and 2008. The technique combines ultraviolet, visible, and infrared photography with substantial computational analysis to detect ink residues invisible to the unaided eye.
Read the story →He used balance points to discover the volumes of curved solids, then proved them with strict geometry. The Greeks called it forbidden. He called it the Method.
Read the story →In 1906 a Danish scholar in Istanbul opened a medieval Greek prayer book and noticed faint mathematics underneath the prayers. It was Archimedes.
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