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The Archimedes Codex - Reviel Netz, William Noel

The Archimedes Codex

How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
Buch | Hardcover
352 Seiten
2007
Da Capo Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-306-81580-5 (ISBN)
CHF 38,25 inkl. MwSt
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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 Christies 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 monks 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 Christies, 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.

Reviel Netz, Professor of Classics and Philosophy at Stanford University, specializes in ancient science. William Noel is Curator of Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, and Director of the Archimedes Palimpsest Project.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 2.10.2007
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Naturwissenschaft
Religion / Theologie Christentum Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik
ISBN-10 0-306-81580-X / 030681580X
ISBN-13 978-0-306-81580-5 / 9780306815805
Zustand Neuware
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