The Archimedes Palimpsest V02: Volume2, Images and Transcriptions

by Reviel Netz

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107014379
• ISBN13: 9781107014374
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 5.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 9.8" x 13.6"