The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
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The Archimedes Codex: Revealing the Secrets of the World's Greatest Palimpsest
EN USISBN: 0306817373 bzw. 9780306817373, in Englisch, Da Capo Press, gebraucht.
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ancient,archaeology,europe,greece,history,history and philosophy,mathematics,politics and social sciences,science and math,world, The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist, Part archaeological detective story, part science, and part history, The Archimedes Codex tells the astonishing story of a lost manuscript, from its tenth-century creation in ancient Constantinople to the auction block at Christie's in New York, 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 BC?212 BC), the greatest mathematician of antiquity?a manuscript that established, for the first time, the extent of his mathematical genius, which was two thousand years ahead of modern science.
ancient,archaeology,europe,greece,history,history and philosophy,mathematics,politics and social sciences,science and math,world, The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist, Part archaeological detective story, part science, and part history, The Archimedes Codex tells the astonishing story of a lost manuscript, from its tenth-century creation in ancient Constantinople to the auction block at Christie's in New York, 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 BC?212 BC), the greatest mathematician of antiquity?a manuscript that established, for the first time, the extent of his mathematical genius, which was two thousand years ahead of modern science.
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Archimedes Codex
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Archimedes Codex
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The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
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