The Archimedes Codex

Revealing The Secrets Of The World's Greatest Palimpsest

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Reviel Netz

▪William Noel

Verlag:

Hachette Book Group

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: XGK396V

EAN: 9780753823729

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Zustellung: Fr, 19.06.2026

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Beschreibung

Drawings and writings by Archimedes, previously thought to have been destroyed, have been uncovered beneath the pages of a 13th-century monk's prayer book. These hidden texts, slowly being retrieved and deciphered by scientists, show that Archimedes' thinking (2,200 years ago) was even ahead of Isaac Newton in the 17th century. Archimedes discovered the value of Pi, he developed the theory of specific gravity and made steps towards the development of calculus. Everything we know about him comes from three manuscripts, two of which have disappeared. The third, currently in the Walters Art Museum, is a palimpsest -the text has been scraped off, the book taken apart and its parchment re-used.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Reviel Netz
William Noel

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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