The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist. by Netz, Reviel and William Noel - 2007.

New York:: Da Capo Press, 2007.. Book Club Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: black binding; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Reading list, index. Description: Includes a section of color plates, plus a few black and white illustrations. '' At a Christie's auction in October of 1998, a battered medieval manuscript sold for two million dollars to an anonymous bidder, who then turned it over to a museum for further study. Behind the script of the thirteenth-century monk's prayer book, the palimpsest revealed the faint writing of a much older tenth-century manuscript. Part archeological detective story part science, and part history, this tells the remarkable story of this lost manuscript from its creation in Constantinople and how a team of scholars used the latest imaging technology to reveal and decipher the original text. What they fond was the earliest surviving manuscript by Archimedes, the greatest mathematician of antiquity -- a manuscript that revealed the full range of his mathematical genius.''