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pscot

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1. I liked the shadow of the Wind
Mon Sep 30, 2013, 07:12 PM
Sep 2013

Very imaginative. You might enjoy The Archimedes Codex[/]. It's about a manuscript by Archimedes that got scrubbed, folded and turned into a prayer book by Byzantine monastic scribes. I think Nova devoted a program to it.

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