palimpsest

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In his 1995 memoir Palimpsest, Gore Vidal wrote of his partner Howard Austen: “ ‘How,’ we are often asked, ‘have you stayed together for forty-four years?’

From Slate • May 20, 2019

Seales was familiar with Bergmann’s work on the Archimedes Palimpsest.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2015

Comparing the Galen Palimpsest and the British Syriac copy, for instance, could offer telling insights into how the ancient Greeks treated the ill and how these remedies spread across the Middle East.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2015

Visitors to Palimpsest are tattooed with unique maps of the city, and must then seek one another out to continue their explorations of that place.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2011

Some Pages of the Four Gospels Retranscribed From the Sinaitic Palimpsest, with a translation of the whole text by Agnes Smith Lewis.

From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine