A scribe working in Constantinople handwrites a copy of the Archimedes treatises, including their accompanying diagrams and calculations, onto parchment, which is assembled into a book.

Archimedes of Syracuse was born in Sicily around ... He then used that apartment to create a copy of the Euchologion, which is a book of prayer and worship directions used for the Byzantine ...

c. A.D. 1200 A monk reuses Archimedes' manuscript for a prayer book, creating the Palimpsest. This becomes the only copy of Archimedes' manuscript to survive to the present day. The Archimedes ...