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AuthorNetz, Reviel.TitleThe Archimedes codex : how a medieval prayer book is revealing the true genius of antiquity’s greatest scientist / Reviel Netz, William Noel.Edition1st Da Capo Press ed.
PublishedPhiladelphia, PA : Da Capo Press, 2007.FormatBook
Descriptionix, 313 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

NotesIncludes bibliographic references and index.
ContentsList of illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Archimedes in America -- 2. Archimedes in Syracuse -- 3. The great race, part 1 : before the Palimpsest -- 4. Visual science -- 5. The great race, part 2 : the history of the Palimpsest -- 6. Archimedes’ Method, 1999, or The making of science -- 7. The critical path -- 8. Archimedes’ Method, 2001, or Infinity unveiled -- 9. The digital Palimpsest -- 10. The Stomachion, 2003, or Archimedes at play -- 11. New light on an old subject -- Epilogue : "The vast book of the universe" -- Acknowledgements -- Further readding -- Index.
AbstractDescribes 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.
ISBN9780306815805030681580XPer.Sub.Archimedes.
SubjectMathematics, Ancient.
Palimpsests -- United States.
Add.EntryNoel, William.

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