The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
Reviel Netz, William Noel, "The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist"
ISBN: 030681580X, 0753823721 | 2007 | EPUB | 352 pages | 2 MB
Drawings and writings by Archimedes, previously thought to have been destroyed, have been uncovered beneath the pages of a 13th-century monk's prayer book. The authors tell the story of the survival of that prayer book and examine the process of recovering the text underneath as well as investigating why the text is so important.