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2016-08-10T00:26:16.000Z	A Prayer for Archimedes (2007)	https://www.sciencenews.org/article/prayer-archimedes	signa11	87			33					1470788776	story author_signa11 story_12258673	12258673	2007

For seventy years, a prayer book moldered in the closet of a family in France, passed down from one generation to the next. Its mildewed parchment pages were stiff and contorted, tarnished by burn marks and waxy smudges. Behind the text of the prayers, faint Greek letters marched in lines up the page, with an occasional diagram disappearing into the spine.