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The Archimedes palimpsest / edited by Reviel Netz, William Noel, Natalie Tchernetska and Nigel Wilson.
- Title
- The Archimedes palimpsest / edited by Reviel Netz, William Noel, Natalie Tchernetska and Nigel Wilson.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Published for the Walters Art Museum by Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v.2 | Text | Request in advance | QA31 .A832 2011 v.2 | Off-site | |
| v.1 | Text | Request in advance | QA31 .A832 2011 v.1 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 2 v. : ill. (chiefly col.); 35 cm.
- Summary
- "The Archimedes Palimpsest is the name given to a Byzantine prayer-book which was written over a number of earlier manuscripts, including two unique examples containing 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 this volume 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. The book discusses the pioneering imaging and post-processing techniques used to reveal the texts, and includes detailed codicological descriptions of all eight manuscripts comprising the Palimpsest. It will be of interest to manuscript scholars, classicists, and historians of science"--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Archimedes palimpsest publications
- Uniform Title
- Archimedes palimpsest publications
- Subject
- Archimedes > Manuscripts > Catalogs
- Orthodox Eastern Church
- Archimedes codex
- Palimpsests > Catalogs
- Mathematics, Greek > Early works to 1800
- Physics > Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern) > Catalogs
- Image processing > Digital techniques
- Manuscripts > Digitization
- Manuscripts > Conservation and restoration
- Genre/Form
- Catalogs
- Early works
- Note
- Series title from dust jacket.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, p. 327-330) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- V. 1. Catalogue and commentary. Introduction: The Archimedes Palimpsest project / William Noel; Part 1. The Manuscripts. Euchologion; Archimedes, treatises (Codex C); Hyperides, speeches; Commentary on Aristotle's Categories; Hagiographical text; Menaion; Unknown text Y; Unknown text Z; Part 2. History. The making of the Euchologion / Abigail Quandt; The strange and eventful history of the Archimedes Palimpsest / John Lowden; Itinera Archimedea : on Heiberg in Constantinople and Archimedes in Copenhagen / Erik Petersen; Part 3. Conservation. Conserving the Archimedes Palimpsest / Abigail Quandt; Part 4. The Digital Palimpsest. Imaging and image-processing techniques / William A. Christens-Barry, Roger L. Easton, Jr. and Keith T. Knox; Imaging with x-ray fluorescence / Uwe Bergmann; The Palimpsest data set / Doug Emery, Alexander Lee and Michael B. Toth; Part 5. The texts. The Palimpsest in context / Natalie Tchernetska and Nigel Wilson; The place of Codex C in Archimedes scholarship / Reviel Netz; Appendix: concordance of foliations -- v. 2. Images and transcriptions. Archimedes : treatises (Codex C); Hyperides : speeches; Commentary on Aristotle's Categories.
- ISBN
- 9781107016842 (set)
- 1107016843 (set)
- 9781107014572 (v. 1)
- 1107014573 (v. 1)
- 9781107014374 (v. 2)
- 1107014379 (v. 2)
- LCCN
- ^^2011026881
- OCLC
- 741548938
- SCSB-12902061
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library