# Netz 2007: The Archimedes Codex: Revealing the Secrets of the World's Greatest Palimpsest

> Reviel Netz, William Noel, 2007. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Source for the list of treatises and for Netz's interpretations.

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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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## What it's used for here

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

## Cited by on this site 6 records

[Newly read passages of The Method show Archimedes treating infinitely many objects as completed wholes and…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/archimedes-palimpsest/answers/ANS0CT7N88P0TDP/newly-read-passages-of-the-method-show-archimedes-treating)

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[The Stomachion is a study of how many ways the dissected square can be reassembled, an early work of…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/archimedes-palimpsest/answers/ANS0CT7N8RA3QRV/the-stomachion-is-a-study-of-how-many-ways-the-dissected)

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[Netz's reading rests on passages recovered by the new imaging and is argued in the project's account.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/archimedes-palimpsest/evidence/EVD0CT7N8GG6PM6/netzs-reading-rests-on-passages-recovered-by-the-new-imaging)

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[Reviel Netz](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/archimedes-palimpsest/people/FIG0CT7MZZ22QM2/reviel-netz)

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[The Archimedes Palimpsest](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/archimedes-palimpsest)

The mystery article

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[What did the recovered text change about Archimedes' mathematics?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/archimedes-palimpsest/questions/QST0CT7N4KG76TA/what-did-the-recovered-text-change-about-archimedes)

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## Cite it

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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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