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The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
Author(s): Reviel Netz (Author), William Noel (Author)
- Publisher: Da Capo Press
- Publication Date: January 9, 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 336 pages
- ISBN-10: 0306817373
- ISBN-13: 9780306817373
Book Description
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 antiquitya manuscript that established, for the first time, the extent of his mathematical genius, which was two thousand years ahead of modern science.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Books & Culture, May/June 2012
“Those outside the academy, as well as teachers—of history, classics, philosophy, and science—should take advantage of books like these to help science take its place as an exciting interdisciplinary field.”
About the Author
Reviel Netz is Professor of Classics and Philosophy at Stanford University.
William Noel is Curator of Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, and Director of the Archimedes Palimpsest Project.
