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Part archaeological detective story, part science, and part history, The Archimedes Codex tells the astonishing story of a lost manuscript, from its tenth-century creation in ancient Constantinople to the auction block at Christies in New York, and how a team of scholars used the latest imaging technology to reveal and decipher the original text. What they found was the earliest surviving manuscript by Archimedes (287 BC-212 BC), the greatest mathematician of antiquity-a manuscript that established, for the first time, the extent of his mathematical genius, which was two thousand years ahead of modern science.

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Books & Culture, May/June 2012 Those outside the academy, as well as teachers--of history, classics, philosophy, and science--should take advantage of books like these to help science take its place as an exciting interdisciplinary field.

<p> Books & Culture, May/June 2012<br> Those outside the academy, as well as teachers--of history, classics, philosophy, and science--should take advantage of books like these to help science take its place as an exciting interdisciplinary field.

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Reviel Netz is Professor of Classics and Philosophy at Stanford University.William Noel is Curator of Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, and Director of the Archimedes Palimpsest Project.

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