{"product_id":"archimedes-codex-how-a-medieval-prayer-book-is-revealing-the-true-genius-of-antiquitys-greatest-scientist","title":"Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eArchimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eReviel Netz\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780306815805\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eDa Capo Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2007\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e352\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eAt a Christie's auction in October 1998, a battered medieval manuscript sold for two million dollars to an anonymous bidder, who then turned it over to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore for further study. The manuscript was a palimpsest-a book made from an earlier codex whose script had been scraped off and the pages used again. Behind the script of the thirteenth-century monk's prayer book, the palimpsest revealed the faint writing of a much older, tenth-century manuscript. Part archaeological detective story, part science, and part history, \u003ci\u003eThe Archimedes Codex\u003c\/i\u003e tells the extraordinary story of this lost manuscript, from its tenth-century creation in Constantinople to the auction block at Christie's, 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 b.c.-212 b.c.), the greatest mathematician of antiquity-a manuscript that revealed, for the first time, the full range of his mathematical genius, which was two thousand years ahead of modern science.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Da Capo Press","offers":[{"title":"Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist | Reviel Netz | Hardcover | 9780306815805 | Used: Very Good | European History 1700153 (temp: 10)","offer_id":48485048975512,"sku":"1700153","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71QUfNx7lcL.jpg?v=1773436365","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/archimedes-codex-how-a-medieval-prayer-book-is-revealing-the-true-genius-of-antiquitys-greatest-scientist","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}