"Almost all modern translations of Archimedes’ works stem from a single Greek manuscript that was copied from an earlier original at Constantinople in the ninth or tenth century, was translated into Latin in the thirteenth century, and eventually disappeared without a trace in the sixteenth century."
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Edwards Jr, C. H. The Historical Development of the Calculus. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1979. quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189
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