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

by: Netz, R. Noel, W.

Price: 29,00 EURO

1 copy in stock

Category:

Ancient Technology / Science

Code:

5783

ISBN-13:

9780306815805 / 978-0-306-81580-5

ISBN-10:

030681580X / 0-306-81580-X

Publisher:

Da Capo Press

Publication Date:

2007

Binding:

Cloth

Pages:

313

Book Condition:

Very good

The Archimedes codex : how a medieval prayer book is revealing the true genius of antiquity's greatest scientist

Authors:Reviel Netz, William Noel

Summary:Describes the discovery of the lost works of Archimedes, the great Greek mathematician, as part of a palimpsest from a medieval prayer book created during the thirteenth century, and offers a look at the full range of mathematical discoveries and theories that were found

ix, 313 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm

Contents:
Preface
Archimedes in America
Archimedes in Syracuse
The great race, part I: before the palimpsest
Visual science
The great race, part II: the history of the palimpsest
Archimedes' Method, 1999, or the making of science
The critical path
Archimedes' Method, 2001, or infinity unveiled
The digital palimpsest
The Stomachion, 2003, or Archimedes at play
New light on an old subject
Epilogue: "The vast book of the universe."

Subjects:
Archimedes
Archimedes Manuscripts
Archimedes Palimpsest
Entzifferung
Mathematics History
Mathematics, Ancient
Mathematics, Greek
Mathématiques grecques
Palimpsester bevarande och restaurering
Palimpsestes Conservation et restauration
Palimpsests
Palimpsests Conservation and restoration
Palimpsests United States

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

by: Netz, R. Noel, W.

ISBN-13: 9780306815805 / 978-0-306-81580-5
ISBN-03: 030681580X / 0-306-81580-X
Da Capo Press, , 2007

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