The Archimedes Palimpsest

Volume1, Catalogue and Commentary
Herausgeber: Netz, Reviel; Tchernetska, Natalie; Wilson, Nigel; Noel, William

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Authoritative account of the ten years of conservation, imaging and scholarship on the world's greatest palimpsest.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 347mm x 253mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 2530g
• ISBN-13: 9781107014572
• ISBN-10: 1107014573
• Artikelnr.: 33766090

Inhaltsangabe

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.