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

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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...

By Reviel Netz
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Da Capo Press; 1st Da Capo Press Ed edition (October 23, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 030681580X
ISBN-13: 978-0306815805
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9.2 inches
Format: PDF ePub TXT book

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Archimedes was one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, but many of his writings have long been lost to us. We've had some medieval translations of a few of his works, but nothing original. That is, until now. In 1998, a unique book went up for auction in New York: a 13th century prayer b...


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