Phlip
phlip@morganco.net
Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio
The World's Need
So many Gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
When just the art of being kind
Is all this sad world needs.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Raftos <greeting@zip.com.au>
To: BYZANS-L <BYZANS-L@lists.missouri.edu>
Date: Thursday, June 17, 1999 5:26 PM
Subject: Stomachion
>Hello all,
>
>Just discovered the game of Stomachion which resembles the Chinese
>Tangram at
>http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Stomachion/intro.html
>This site dedicated to Archimedes mentions two manuscripts in
>fragmentary form attributed to Archimedes which survive about this
>mechanical dissection puzzle/game.One is Arabic and the other is a Greek
>manuscript dating from the tenth century discovered in Constantinople in
>1899. I have tried to contact Chris Rorres at Drexel to find out what
>the manuscripts are but the e-mail bounces back. Does anyone know or
>have any information about this game?
>
>For those who helped with my Byzantine calligraphy enquiries thanks
>again. Here is something that may be of interest. The microscopic
>analysis of a Byzantine/Syriac Gospel lectionary :
>http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/ac/98/feb/raman.html
>
From: "Alderton, Philippa" <phlip@morganco.net>
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Received on Thu Jun 17 18:35:54 1999
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