The Archimedes Palimpsest (Hardcover)

The Archimedes Palimpsest is the name given to a Byzantine prayer book that was written over a number of earlier manuscripts, including one that contained two unique works by Archimedes, unquestionably the greatest mathematician of antiquity. Sold at auction in 1998, it has since been the subject of a privately funded project to conserve, image, and transcribe its texts. Images and transcriptions of three of these manuscripts are provided here. The first contains seven treatises by Archimedes, including two unique texts, Method and Stomachion, as well as the only extant Greek version of Floating Bodies. Previously unknown speeches by Hyperides and a second- or third-century commentary on Aristotle's Categories follow. The product of ten years of conservation, imaging, and scholarship, this book will be of interest to manuscript scholars, classicists, and historians of science.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Archimedes Palimpsest Publications, Volume 2
Release date:	November 2011
First published:	November 2011
Editors:	Reviel Netz • William Noel • Nigel Wilson • Natalie Tchernetska
Dimensions:	345 x 251 x 40mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-01437-4
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > History of mathematics Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Promotions
LSN:	1-107-01437-9
Barcode:	9781107014374

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