Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

by Steven H. Strogatz

The Archimedes Palimpsest, as it is now known, first came to light in 1899 in a Greek Orthodox library in Constantinople. It spent the Renaissance and the scientific revolution undetected in a prayer book in the monastery of St. Sabas near Bethlehem. It now lives in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, where it has been lovingly restored and examined using the latest imaging technology.