Alyssa and I watched a program on Saturday night about Archimedes. It was fascinating. Talked about how he basically invented calculus, along with discovering water displacement and such. Talked about his text “The Method” and how it got written over in the middle ages by some monk re-using the papyrus for a prayer book. This was Nova. Finally it talked about how they are using modern technology to recover some of Archimedes’ text underneath the monk’s ink.
Alyssa told me she had a dream Saturday night that Santa Claus helped her by using his magic to check Archimedes’ book out from the library and to recover all the text cleanly. She couldn’t read it because it was in Greek, but it was clear.
I need to see if I can find a copy of that book somewhere so Alyssa can see it in person.
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