[1] In 1998, an anonymous collector purchased a damaged medieval prayer book at auction for two million dollars, initiating one of the most complex projects in modern conservation. [2] The book was a palimpsest—a manuscript whose original text had been scraped away to reuse the parchment. [3] Beneath the thirteenth-century prayers lay the only surviving copies of several treatises by the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes. [4] Conservationists immediately began a decade-long effort to separate the bound pages and read the erased writing. [5] Archimedes is widely regarded as one of the leading scientists of classical antiquity, alongside figures like Euclid and Eratosthenes. [6] Ultimately, by utilizing multispectral imaging and X-ray fluorescence, the team successfully recovered the hidden mathematical texts.
The writer is considering deleting Sentence 5 from the passage. Should this sentence be kept or deleted?
- AKept, because it provides essential biographical context that explains Archimedes's historical significance to the reader.
- BKept, because it establishes the connection between the mathematical treatises mentioned in Sentence 3 and the conservation techniques discussed in Sentence 6.
- Deleted, because it interrupts the paragraph's focus on the conservation and recovery of the Archimedes Palimpsest with tangential biographical information.Cevap
- DDeleted, because it repeats details about Archimedes's mathematical works that are already stated in Sentence 3.