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Archimedes Codex

Name: Archimedes Codex
Brand: Orion Publishing Co
SKU: 04152295
Price: 5278 HUF
Availability: InStock
Author: William Reviel
ISBN: 9780753823729

William Reviel

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 04152295

Publishers Orion Publishing Co, March 2008

Drawings and writings by Archimedes, previously thought to have been destroyed, have been uncovered... Full description

Libristo code: 04152295

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5 278 Ft

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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.