Reviel Netz, William Noel - The Archimedes Codex
| Schrijver: | Reviel Netz, William Noel |
|---|---|
| Titel: | The Archimedes Codex |
| ISBN: | 9780306815805 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Uitgever: | Da Capo Press |
| Bijzonderheden: | Goed, 2007, 313p |
| Prijs: | € 10,00 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 3,50 (binnen Nederland) |
| Meer info: |
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 further study. The manuscript was a palimpsest-a book made from an earlier codex whose script had been scraped off and the pages used again. Behind the script of the thirteenth-century monk’s prayer book, the palimpsest revealed the faint writing of a much older, tenth-century manuscript. Part archaeological detective story, part science, and part history, The Archimedes Codex tells the extraordinary story of this lost manuscript, from its tenth-century creation in Constantinople to the auction block at Christie’s, and how a team of scholars used the latest imaging technology to reveal and decipher the original text. What they found was the earliest surviving manuscript by Archimedes (287 b.c.-212 b.c.), the greatest mathematician of antiquity-a manuscript that revealed, for the first time, the full range of his mathematical genius, which was two thousand years ahead of modern science.
|
De verkoper zal binnen 3 werkdagen contact met u opnemen om de koop verder af te handelen.
Afbeeldingen (Klik om te vergroten)
