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A reused manuscript page is called a palimpsest and often the scraped off text can be recovered. Some of Archimedes writings actually survived this way https://
by zwirbl 4y ago
A reused manuscript page is called a palimpsest and often the scraped off text can be recovered. Some of Archimedes writings actually survived this way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest
- unwind 4y agoObligatory shout-out to the novella of the same name, by HN user (and, obviously, Actual Author) Charles Stross. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest_(novella) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest_(novella)