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The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
by Netz, Reviel; Noel, William
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Like New
- ISBN 10
- 030681580X
- ISBN 13
- 9780306815805
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About This Item
Da Capo Press. First Edition. hardcover. Like New. 6x1x9. Inscribed by William Noel on title page. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. *Autographed by author.* <br> 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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- SequiturBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
- Author
- Netz, Reviel; Noel, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 030681580X
- ISBN 13
- 9780306815805
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- November 2007
- Size
- 6x1x9
- X weight
- 21 oz
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