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The Archimedes Codex - Revealing The Secrets Of The World's Greatest Palimpsest (Paperback)
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The Archimedes Codex - Revealing The Secrets Of The World's Greatest Palimpsest (Paperback)
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List price R302
Loot Price R247
Discovery Miles 2 470
You Save R55 (18%)
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The story of the amazing discovery of Archimedes' lost works
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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