The Archimedes Codex by Reviel Netz

The Archimedes Codex by Reviel Netz

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.

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ISBN 13	9780306815805
ISBN 10	030681580X
Titel	The Archimedes Codex
Autor	Reviel Netz
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Hachette Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2007-10-01
Seitenanzahl	352
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