The Archimedes Palimpsest, Vol. II: Images and Transcriptions
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Hardcover. Large quarto. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with gilt titles in illustrated jacket. IX, 344 pages, numerous illustrations, diagrams. 35 cm. VG+. Book itself is in great shape, besides small stamp inside stating it was withdrawn from an art museums library. Item #213008
ISBN: 9781107014374
"The Archimedes Palimpsest is the name given to a Byzantine prayer-book which was written over a number of earlier manuscripts, including two unique examples containing 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 this volume 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. The book discusses the pioneering imaging and post-processing techniques used to reveal the texts, and includes detailed codicological descriptions of all eight manuscripts comprising the Palimpsest. It will be of interest to manuscript scholars, classicists, and historians of science"--.
OCLC: 838939928
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