![No image available](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/i/en20/no-book-image.png)
![No image available](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/i/en20/no-book-image.png)
The Archimedes Codex: Revealing The Secrets Of The World's Greatest Palimpsest
by Noel, William
- Used
- Near Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0297853104
- ISBN 13
- 9780297853107
- Seller
-
Concord, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2007, 2007. Soft cover. Near Fine. Octavo, softcover, near fine in bright yellow and orange decorative wraps. 305 pp. including index. unmarked. In 1998 a battered manuscript was won at auction for two million dollars by an anonymous buyer. It was a palimpsest - a book that was made from the pages stripped from earlier works where the earlier words were scrapped off and a new text was written over it. This was common practice in medieval times when paper was a valuable commodity. The book that was purchased was a simple thirteenth-century payer book. However, that is not what made the book valuable. The real value was the faint impressions of the much older tenth-century writing buried underneath it. It was the earliest writing of perhaps the greatest mathematicians in history - Archimedes.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- bookwitch
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86102
- Title
- The Archimedes Codex: Revealing The Secrets Of The World's Greatest Palimpsest
- Author
- Noel, William
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0297853104
- ISBN 13
- 9780297853107
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2007
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2007
Terms of Sale
bookwitch
All books guaranteed for 30 days. Full refund if not entirely happy with product. There may be $5 re-stocking fee to be determined by me.
About the Seller
bookwitch
Biblio member since 2006
Concord, California
About bookwitch
Many rare and out of print books. Specialties cookbooks, childrens books, trading, textbooks, art, car repair, religion, signed books; over 30,000 books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...