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Archimedes Codex - 9780297645474
Un libro in lingua di Netz Reviel edito da WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, 2007
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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 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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Archimedes Codex
- Autore: Netz Reviel
- Editore: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
- Data di Pubblicazione: Dicembre '2007
- Genere: Lingua Inglese
- ISBN-10: 0297645471
- EAN-13: 9780297645474