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Home > History >   The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist (Hardcover)
	Bulk Discounts Buy... Save... 25 - 99 40% 100 - 249 45% 250 - 499 47% 500 - 999 50% 1000 or more 55% List Price: $27.50 Our Price: $16.50 for 25 - 99 copies You save $11.00! Published: October 2007 ISBN: 030681580X, 9780306815805 Format Hardcover Publisher: Da Capo Press Carton Quantity: 28 (Minimum order):  25 Availability:: Usually Ships in 24 to 72 Hours Product Code: 9780306815805 Buy It New: Bulk savings applied automatically at checkout. Orders typically ship in 1 to 4 business days, subject to inventory on hand and quantity ordered. Please call us if you have any questions or special needs. Qty:

Description   At 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, The Archimedes Codex 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.   Related Products... The Man Who Outshone the Sun King: A Life of Glea The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Ar The Militia Threat: (Hardcover) Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Our Price: $15.60 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $16.77 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $14.97 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $15.60 for 25 - 99 copies Add The Dictator's Shadow: Life Under Augusto Pinoche This Kind of War (Hardcover) The Great Wall: The Extraordinary Story of China' God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Our Price: $16.50 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $19.47 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $15.60 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $16.17 for 25 - 99 copies Add

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