palimpsest
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Seales was familiar with Bergmann’s work on the Archimedes Palimpsest.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2015
One thing that stands out about Palimpsest is that it is a book about writing that is written beautifully.
From Slate • Aug. 4, 2015
In 2009, the Galen Palimpsest was lent to the Walters Art Museum for digital imaging of its leaves by an independent group of specialists, which would reveal the erased Galen undertext.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2015
Visitors to Palimpsest are tattooed with unique maps of the city, and must then seek one another out to continue their explorations of that place.
From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2011
—Part I. concluded, The Palimpsest, 739 —Levana and our Ladies of Sorrow, 743 —The apparition of the Brocken, 747 —Finale to Part I., Savannah-la-Mar, 750.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various
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