The Archimedes Codex
How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
Nonfiction, History
| Author: | Reviel Netz, William Noel | ISBN: | 9780786745388 |
| Publisher: | Hachette Books | Publication: | March 12, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Da Capo Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Reviel Netz, William Noel |
| ISBN: | 9780786745388 |
| Publisher: | Hachette Books |
| Publication: | March 12, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Da Capo Press |
| Language: | English |
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 antiquity-a manuscript that established, for the first time, the extent of his mathematical genius, which was two thousand years ahead of modern science.
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 antiquity-a manuscript that established, for the first time, the extent of his mathematical genius, which was two thousand years ahead of modern science.
