The Archimedes Palimpsest

Abstract

Introduction: the Archimedes Palimpsest project William Noel Part I. The Manuscripts: Part II. History: 1. The making of the Euchologion Abigail Quandt 2. The strange and eventful history of the Archimedes Palimpsest John Lowden 3. Itinera Archimedea: on Heiberg in Constantinople and Archimedes in Copenhagen Erik Petersen Part III. Conservation: 4. Conserving the Archimedes Palimpsest Abigail Quandt Part IV. The Digital Palimpsest: 5. Imaging and image-processing techniques William A. Christens-Barry, Roger L. Easton, Jr and Keith T. Knox 6. Imaging with x-ray fluorescence Uwe Bergmann 7. The Palimpsest data set Doug Emery, Alex Lee and Michael Toth Part V. The Texts: 8. The Palimpsest in context Natalie Tchernetska and Nigel Wilson 9. The place of Codex C in Archimedes scholarship Reviel Netz Appendix: concordance of foliations.