The Archimedes Palimpsest
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
The Archimedes Palimpsest 2 Volume Set
ISBN-10
1107014379
ISBN-13
9781107014374
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 24th, 2011
Print length
352 Pages
Weight
25 grams
Dimensions
34.30 x 25.00 x 7.90 cms
Product Classification:
Classical history / classical civilisationHistory of mathematics
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The Archimedes Palimpsest is the world's greatest palimpsest, containing two unique treatises by Archimedes, previously unknown speeches by Hyperides and a commentary on Aristotle's Categories. This volume contains a complete set of colour images and facing-page transcriptions of the most important manuscripts that constitute the Palimpsest.
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. Images and transcriptions of three of these manuscripts are provided here. The first contains seven treatises by Archimedes, including two unique texts, Method and Stomachion, as well as the only extant Greek version of Floating Bodies. Previously unknown speeches by Hyperides and a second- or third-century commentary on Aristotle''s Categories follow. The product of ten years of conservation, imaging, and scholarship, this book will be of interest to manuscript scholars, classicists, and historians of science.
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