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The Archimedes Palimpsest (Hardcover)
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The Archimedes Palimpsest (Hardcover)
Series: The Archimedes Palimpsest Publications, Volume 2
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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.
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