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The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist Engineering and other subversives reenergized AmericanAt a Christie's auction in October 1998, a battered medieval manuscript sold for two million dollars to an anonymous bidder, who then turned it over to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore for further study. The manuscript was a palimpsest a book made from an earlier codex whose script had been scraped off and the pages used again. Behind the script of the thirteenth century monk's prayer book, the palimpsest revealed the faint writing of a much older,