Dissection puzzle
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A dissection puzzle, also called a transformation puzzle or Richter puzzle, is a tiling puzzle where a set of pieces can be assembled in different ways to produce two or more distinct geometric shapes
Ostomachion is a dissection puzzle attributed to Archimedes.
Archimedes Palimpsest
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The Archimedes Palimpsest is a parchment codex palimpsest, originally a Byzantine Greek copy of a compilation of Archimedes and other authors. It contains two works of Archimedes that were thought to
A typical page from the Archimedes Palimpsest. The text of the prayer book is seen from top to bottom, the original Archimedes manuscript is seen as fainter text below it running from left to right.
Photo of the palimpsest
After imaging a page from the palimpsest, the original Archimedes text is now seen clearly