{"id":230629,"date":"2026-09-22T04:30:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=230629"},"modified":"2026-09-22T04:30:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:30:58","slug":"monks-erased-an-archimedes-manuscript-and-science-may-have-lost-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=230629","title":{"rendered":"Monks Erased an Archimedes Manuscript, and Science May Have Lost Centuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1906, Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg spotted faint traces of Archimedes beneath a medieval prayer book, a palimpsest created after monks recycled the parchment. Modern multispectral imaging using ultraviolet, infrared, and X-rays later recovered \u201cThe Method of Mechanical Theorems,\u201d showing Archimedes developed mathematical ideas roughly 1,800 years before Newton and Leibniz. A prayer book [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1906, Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg spotted faint traces of Archimedes beneath a medieval prayer book, a palimpsest created after monks recycled the parchment. Modern multispectral imaging using ultraviolet, infrared, and X-rays later recovered \u201cThe Method of Mechanical Theorems,\u201d showing Archimedes developed mathematical ideas roughly 1,800 years before Newton and Leibniz. A prayer book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":230630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/230630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}