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The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
Reviel Netz, William Noel
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| #469364 in Books | 2007-10-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.12 x6.36 x9.26l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 352 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| An ancient prayer book is revealing the true genius of antiquity's greatest scientist|By Michael Ryan|My viewing of the PBS video 'Ancient Computer', the story of research into the Antikythera Mechanism, let me to become interested in this recent publication about the discovery of the only extant writing that survives from the mathematical genius Archimedes of Syracuse. It|From Publishers Weekly|In 1998, the auction house Christie's sold a medieval prayer book for more than $2 million. The price owed to a startling discovery: the prayers had been written over the earliest surviving manuscript of Archimedes (287–212 B.C.), th
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 ...
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