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The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
The Archimedes Codex How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
Author: Reviel Netz, William Noel
The extraordinary story of the discovery of lost works by Archimedes beneath the pages of a medieval prayer book, and the amazing secrets they reveal. 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 fur...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780306815805
ISBN-10: 030681580X
Publication Date: 11/2007
Pages: 313
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Publisher: Da Capo Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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