{"id":964,"date":"2025-03-12T13:27:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/?p=964"},"modified":"2025-04-16T08:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:07:42","slug":"why-a-christian-erased-this-mathematical-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritas-et-caritas.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/why-a-christian-erased-this-mathematical-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a Christian erased this mathematical text"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The story of Archimedes Codex C (also known as the Archimedes Palimpsest), sounds too sensational to be true. It\u2019s usually described something like \u201cancient wisdom eradicated by a moron who believed in fairy tales\u201d, or \u201cArchimedes came up with calculus but the Church destroyed the only manuscript\u201d. These videos explain why a Christian erased this mathematical text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fmfOVywebRw\" title=\"Why did a Christian erase this classical text? #1\">Why did a Christian erase this classical text? #1<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Czo2h-HiJ70\" title=\"Why did a Christian erase this classical text? #2\">Why did a Christian erase this classical text? #2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Why did a Christian erase this classical text? #1\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fmfOVywebRw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Why did a Christian erase this classical text? #2\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Czo2h-HiJ70?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Acerbi, Fabio. \u201cThe Archimedes Palimpsest Edited by Reviel Netz, William Noel, Natalie Tchernetska, and Nigel Wilson.\u201d <em>Aestimatio<\/em> 10 (2013): 34\u201346.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Archimedes, and Reviel Netz. <em>The Works of Archimedes: Volume 1, The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder: Translation and Commentary<\/em>. 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