The Archimedes palimpsest

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The Archimedes palimpsest

edited by Reviel Netz ... [et al.]

Cambridge University Press, 2011

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  • v. 2

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  • v. 1. Catalogue and commentary
  • v. 2. Images and transcriptions

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v. 2 ISBN 9781107014374

内容説明

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. Images and transcriptions of three of these manuscripts are provided here. The first contains seven treatises by Archimedes, including two unique texts, Method and Stomachion, as well as the only extant Greek version of Floating Bodies. Previously unknown speeches by Hyperides and a second- or third-century commentary on Aristotle's Categories follow. The product of ten years of conservation, imaging, and scholarship, this book will be of interest to manuscript scholars, classicists, and historians of science.

目次

  • Preface
  • 1. Archimedes: treatises
  • 2. Hyperides: speeches
  • 3. Commentary on Aristotle's Categories
  • Appendix.
巻冊次

v. 1 ISBN 9781107014572

内容説明

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 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 that constitute the Palimpsest. It will be of interest to manuscript scholars, conservators, classicists, and historians of science.

目次

  • 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.

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