The Archimedes codex : revealing the secrets of the world's greatest palimpsest

Reviel Netz and William Noel

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, in this case as a prayer book. William Noel, the project director, and Reviel Netz, a historian of ancient mathematics, tell the enthralling story of the survival of that prayer book from 1229 to the present, and examine the process of recovering the invaluable text underneath as well as investigating into why that text is so important.

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書名 The Archimedes codex : revealing the secrets of the world's greatest palimpsest
著作者等 Netz, Reviel
Noel, William
書名別名 The Archimedes codex : revealing the blueprint of modern science
出版元 Phoenix
刊行年月 2008
ページ数 ix, 305 p., [16] p. of plates
大きさ 20 cm
ISBN 9780753823729
NCID BB26824555
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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