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The Archimedes Codex

How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist

Reviel Netz, William Noel (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2009
Da Capo Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-306-81737-3 (ISBN)

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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

Part archaeological detective story, part science, and part history, The Archimedes Codex tells the astonishing story of a lost manuscript, from its tenth-century creation in ancient Constantinople to the auction block at Christies in New York, 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 BC-212 BC), the greatest mathematician of antiquity-a manuscript that established, for the first time, the extent of his mathematical genius, which was two thousand years ahead of modern science.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.2009
Zusatzinfo	P
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
ISBN-10	0-306-81737-3 / 0306817373
ISBN-13	978-0-306-81737-3 / 9780306817373
Zustand	Neuware