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San Francisco—Previously hidden writings of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes are being uncovered by powerful x-ray beams nearly 800 years after a Christian Monk scrubbed off the text and wrote over it with prayers.

—Associated Press: August 5, 2006

They found my man Archimedes buried

under layers of prayer and paintings of God.

Formulae for buoyancy,

for flotation, gravity and math drifted invisibly

under the Ave, under the Pater Noster—

his life became a palimpsest and his work—

his running down the street

wet, naked, exuberant, full of glory—

was covered over, concealed, repressed.

But today he came to me dripping from the bath.

He grabbed my hands and danced me

in city streets, singing “Eureka, Eureka, Eureka,”

while around us angels with

pocket protectors exalted, and praised God,

from Whom flows all knowledge,

buoyancy—

flotation—

gravity—

math—

      r. palmer

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