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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 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