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The Archimedes Codex How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist Author: William Noel, Reviel Netz 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 o...  more »riginal text. What they found was the earliest surviving manuscript by Archimedes (287 BC - 212 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.  « less Post This Book Login | Register ISBN-13: 9780306817373 ISBN-10: 0306817373 Publication Date: 1/8/2009 Pages: 336 Rating: Currently 0/5 Stars.   ? 0 stars, based on 0 rating Publisher: Da Capo Press Book Type: Paperback Other Versions: Hardcover Members Wishing: 4 Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review

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