Book ID: CBB000953101

The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist (2007)

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Netz, Reviel (Author)
Noel, William (Author)


Da Capo Press


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: ix + 313 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Folkerts, Menso (2009) Review of "The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 154). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Netz, Reviel
Saito, Ken
Tchernetska, Natalie
Archimedes
Masià Fornos, Ramon
Hogendijk, Jan P.
Journals
Sciamvs: Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences
Historia Mathematica
History of Science
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Apeiron: Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science
Journal of Dialectics of Nature
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Real Sociedad Matemática Española
Fundació Bernat Metge
Kyoritsushuppan
Published for the Walters Art Museum by Cambridge University Press
Concepts
Mathematics
Geometry
Manuscripts
Translations
Biographies
Solid geometry
People
Archimedes
Euclid
Aristarchos of Samos
Eutocios
Catullus, Gaius Valerius
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Places
Greece
Rome
Babylon (extinct city)
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