This is the story of a book that
could have changed the history of the World. To the untrained eye, it
is nothing more than a small and unassuming Byzantine prayer book, yet
it sold at Christies for over $2m. For faintly visible beneath the
prayers on its pages are other, unique, writings - words that have been
lost for nearly two thousand years.
The text is the only record of
work by one of the world's greatest minds - the ancient Greek,
Archimedes - a mathematical genius centuries ahead of his time. Hidden
for a millennium in a middle eastern library, it has been written over,
broken up, painted on, cut up and re-glued. But in the nick of time
scientists have saved the precious, fragile document, and for the first
time it is revealing just how revolutionary Archimedes' ideas were. If
it had been available to scholars during the Renaissance, we might have
reached the Moon over a hundred years ago.
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