The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
- ISBN 10: 030681580X
- ISBN 13: 9780306815805
- Authors: Reviel Netz - William Noel
- Edition: 1st Da Capo Press Ed
- Release: 2007-10-22
- Format: Hardcover (352 pages)
- List Price: $27.50
- Tags: History, World, Ancient, Greece, Home & Garden, Antiques & Collectibles
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Book Description: The extraordinary story of the discovery of lost works by Archimedes beneath the pages of a medieval prayer book, and the amazing secrets they reveal. At a Christie's auction in October 1998, a battered medieval manuscript sold for two million dollars to an anonymous bidder, who then turned it over to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore for further study. The manuscript was a palimpsest--a book made from an earlier codex whose script had been scraped off and the pages used again. Behind the script of the thirteenth-century monk's prayer book, the palimpsest revealed the faint writing of a much older, tenth-century manuscript. Part archaeological detective story, part science, and part history, The Archimedes Codex tells the extraordinary story of this lost manuscript, from its tenth-century creation in Constantinople to the auction block at Christie's, and how a team of scholars used the latest imaging technology to reveal and decipher the original text. What they found was the earliest surviving manuscript by Archimedes (287 b.c.-212 b.c.), the greatest mathematician of antiquity--a manuscript that revealed, for the first time, the full range of his mathematical genius, which was two thousand years ahead of modern science.
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