The Archimedes Palimpsest 2 Volume Set Multiple-component retail product
Edited by Reviel (Stanford University, California) Netz, William Noel, Nigel (University of Oxford) Wilson, Natalie Tchernetska
Part of the The Archimedes Palimpsest Publications series
Multiple-component retail product
Description
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.
In Volume 1 the scientists, conservators, classicists, and historians involved in the project discuss in full their techniques and their discoveries.
These include new speeches by the classical Athenian orator Hyperides, a lost commentary on Aristotle's Categories from the second or third century AD, and substantial re-readings and reinterpretations of the works by Archimedes.
Volume 2 contains a complete set of colour images and transcriptions of the most important manuscripts that constitute the Palimpsest.
The volumes will be of interest to manuscript scholars, conservators, classicists, and historians of science.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Multiple-component retail product
- Pages:700 pages, 37 Halftones, unspecified; 127 Halftones, color; 21 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:24/11/2011
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- ISBN:9781107016842
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Multiple-component retail product
- Pages:700 pages, 37 Halftones, unspecified; 127 Halftones, color; 21 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:24/11/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781107016842
