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The Archimedes Codex: Revealing the Secrets of the World's Greatest Palimpsest

Reviel Netz, William Noel, 2007. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London; Da Capo, Cambridge MA.

The project's popular account by its scholar and its curator, setting out the treatises in the book, the imaging and Netz's readings of The Method (actual infinity) and the Stomachion (combinatorics).

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Source for the list of treatises and for Netz's interpretations.

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Netz, R., & Noel, W. (2007). The Archimedes Codex: Revealing the Secrets of the World's Greatest Palimpsest. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London; Da Capo, Cambridge MA. https://archive.org/details/archimedescodexr0000netz
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