Question

What is archimedes' palimpsest? What is so important about what it reveals to us of archimedes approach to geometry?

Answer 1

Answer:

The Archimedes Palimpsest is a parchment codex palimpsest,

which originally was a 10th-century Byzantine Greek copy of an otherwise unknown work of Archimedes of Syracuse and other authors.

It was again written with a Christian religious text by 13th-century monks.