The Archimedes Palimpsest 2 Volume Set -

The Archimedes Palimpsest 2 Volume Set

Media-Kombination
700 Seiten
2011
Cambridge University Press
978-1-107-01684-2 (ISBN)
299,55 inkl. MwSt
The result of a trailblazing project to recover lost texts from the ancient world, these books describe and illustrate the discovery and recovery of erased texts in the Archimedes Palimpsest, the unique source for two treatises by Archimedes, lost speeches by the Athenian orator Hyperides and a commentary on Aristotle's Categories.
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. In Volume 1 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. Volume 2 contains a complete set of colour images and transcriptions of the most important manuscripts that constitute the Palimpsest. The volumes will be of interest to manuscript scholars, conservators, classicists, and historians of science.

Introduction: the Archimedes Palimpsest project William Noel; Part I. The Manuscripts: Part II. History: 1. The making of the Euchologion Abigail Quandt; 2. The strange and eventful history of the Archimedes Palimpsest John Lowden; 3. Itinera Archimedea: on Heiberg in Constantinople and Archimedes in Copenhagen Erik Petersen; Part III. Conservation: 4. Conserving the Archimedes Palimpsest Abigail Quandt; Part IV. The Digital Palimpsest: 5. Imaging and image-processing techniques William A. Christens-Barry, Roger L. Easton, Jr and Keith T. Knox; 6. Imaging with x-ray fluorescence Uwe Bergmann; 7. The Palimpsest data set Doug Emery, Alex Lee and Michael Toth; Part V. The Texts: 8. The Palimpsest in context Natalie Tchernetska and Nigel Wilson; 9. The place of Codex C in Archimedes scholarship Reviel Netz; Appendix: concordance of foliations.

Reihe/Serie The Archimedes Palimpsest Publications
Zusatzinfo 37 Halftones, unspecified; 127 Halftones, color; 21 Line drawings, unspecified
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 251 x 347 mm
Gewicht 5040 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik
ISBN-10 1-107-01684-3 / 1107016843
ISBN-13 978-1-107-01684-2 / 9781107016842
Zustand Neuware
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