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The Archimedes Palimpsest

By Reviel Netz (Editor), William Noel (Editor), Nigel Wilson (Editor), Natalie Tchernetska (Editor)
Hardcover
$187.00
By Reviel Netz (Editor), William Noel (Editor), Nigel Wilson (Editor), Natalie Tchernetska (Editor)
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The Archimedes Palimpsest is the name given to a Byzantine prayer-book which was written over a number of earlier manuscripts. This volume provides colour images and transcriptions of three of the texts recovered from it. Pride of place goes to the treatises of Archimedes, including the only Greek version of Floating Bodies, and the unique copies of Method and Stomachion. This transcription provides many different readings from those made by Heiberg from what he termed Codex C in his editio...

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