The Archimedes Codex unpeeled by modern technological sleuthing.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)

From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: April 15, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Richard O'Mara Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

Baltimore, Md. -- This is about an ancient book called The Archimedes Codex, bought for $2.2 million in October, 1998, at an auction in New York City by an anonymous collector who sent it to the Walters Art Museum, here to be restored, conserved, and probed for its content. It was thought to contain mathematical theses conceived by the genius of Syracuse (287-212 BC), whose name it bears, ideas not found anywhere else in the world.

The Walters faced a daunting task: what arrived was a clump of folios, ...

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