The Archimedes Codex : How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist (Paperback)

from seanoc

A fascinating book,although a bit hard going at times.To fully appreciate this book a knowledge of mathematics is required,but it is still interesting to see how modern technology can reveal so much hidden text on such an ancient artifact.

from rc6750

This is a fascinating book, especially if you like history, old books, technology, and Greek mathematics. I found the story to be incredibly interesting, but the book itself seems to be very poorly organized. Every other chapter is written by one of the authors and they each have very different s...

from ztutz

This is a fascinating book, but it is very poorly written and edited.

from FPdC

This book is the portuguese translation of the english original The Archimedes Codex. The wonderful tale of the (re)discovery of the Archimedes Palimpsest, of the research that allowed us to read Archimedes' text, and of what we have learned (so far) from it. The book intersperses chapters about ...

from csayban

In 1998 a battered manuscript was won at auction for two million dollars by an anonymous buyer. It was a palimpsest - a book that was made from the pages stripped from earlier works where the earlier words were scrapped off and a new text was written over it. This was common practice in medieval ...