Ebook: The Archimedes Codex: how a medieval prayer book is revealing the true genius of antiquity's greatest scientist

Table of Figures; Title Page; Dedication; Preface; 1 -- Archimedes in America; Archimedes for Sale; Help for Archimedes; 2 -- Archimedes in Syracuse; Who Was Archimedes?; Science before Science; Squaring Circles; Imaginary Dialogues; Squaring the Parabola; Beyond Potential Infinity; Proofs and Physics; Puzzles and Numbers; Death and Afterlife; 3 -- The Great Race, Part 1 Before the Palimpsest; A Letter Is Written; In the Library; A Change of Medium; The Gathering Storm; Into the Ark; The Byzantine Renaissance; The ABC of Archimedes; Codex C; 4 -- Visual Science; Before Equations.;The extraordinary story of the discovery of lost works by Archimedes beneath the pages of a medieval prayer book, and the amazing secrets they reveal.