The book was one of the most significant works of ancient Greek mathematics. The manuscripts were acquired by Dutch orientalist and mathematician Jacob Golius during his travels to the Middle East ...

who wielded power over both the Russian and Greek Orthodox churches. Tischendorf promised Alexander he would turn over the valuable manuscripts to the Russian Orthodox Church after he translated them.

The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes, a Greek thinker who is regarded as the greatest mathematician of antiquity. The story of the 174-page ...