Archimedes Codex How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist

Name: Archimedes Codex How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
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ISBN: 9780306817373

ISBN-10: 0306817373

ISBN-13: 9780306817373

Edition: N/A

Authors: Reviel Netz, William Noel

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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 Christie's 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 BC212 BC), the greatest mathematician of antiquitya manuscript that established, for the first time, the extent of his mathematical genius, which was two thousand years ahead of modern science.

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 1/9/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English