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from: WGBH Boston See Larger Image List Price: $19.95 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.96 (10%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $199.00 Third Party New Price: $11.83 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Brand: WGBH BOSTON VIDEO EAN: 9781593751067 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 1593751060 Label: WGBH Boston Manufacturer: WGBH Boston Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: WGBH Boston Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 06, 2004 Running Time: 60 minutes Sales Rank: 13537 Studio: WGBH Boston Theatrical Release Date: 2003 Related Items: NOVA: Newton's Dark Secrets (2005) NOVA - Genius: The Science of Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Galileo NOVA - Galileo's Battle for the Heavens NOVA: Einstein's Big Idea The Story of 1 see more Editorial Review: Product Description: In 1991 a small Medieval prayer book was sold at auction. Miraculously some original writings of Archimedes the brilliant Greek mathematician were discovered hidden beneath the religious text. Through scholarly detective work with the help of modern technology this book now reveals Archimedes stunningly original concepts ideas and theories revelations that if known sooner might have reshaped our world.Many historic figures have been hailed as ahead of their time. Few if any are said to be centuries ahead of their time. The Einstein of his era Archimedes had a sophisticated understanding of mathematics and designed marvelous war machines for his native Syracuse to use against the invading Romans. Many of Archimedes works disappeared during the Middle Ages but some survived to help inspire the scientific revolution in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. One document that seemed irretrievably lost was his final treatise The Method which reputedly explained how he achieved his brilliant results secrets he revealed nowhere else. Now over 2200 years later the discovery of The Method has experts and scientists dreaming of what might have been if Renaissance thinkers and other great minds had known of his ideas and been able to build on them.NOVA explores Archimedes rare writings as well as the book s mysterious beginnings tumultuous history and amazing discovery. As the ancient text comes back from the dead it unlocks its revolutionary contents the infinite secrets of one of history s greatest thinkers.System Requirements:Running Time: 60 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 783421370395 Manufacturer No: WG37039 Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - excellent companion to The Archimedes Codex I finished reading The Archimedes Codex and enjoyed that immensely. Then I found this NOVA program covering the same ground in a more accessible format. It is a very good summary of the book in many ways and introduces a number of the main contributors to the project. If you have not read the book, then you will probably want to after you see this show. Rating: - Great Man Archimedes was a mathematical visionary who was ahead of his time, and if his work was used earlier, we would be far more advanced than we are today mathematically, and probably technologically. This discovery has been made by reading his lost manuscript, which has been found and restored by scientists. Archimedes also discovered a way to measure volume by water displacement. But what impressed me the most from the documentary was the techniques used to restore back the Archimedes texts from the ... Read More Rating: - Eureka - they have found Archimedes' long-lost, most important treatise This is an utterly fascinating documentary. Not only does it help cast Archimedes in an even more important light than ever, it details one of the most amazing "lost book" stories I've ever read. Lost for over a millennium, then discovered, then lost again for decades, then rediscovered, the last known copy of Archimedes' greatest work has finally reemerged, amazing scholars with its revelations of Archimedes' true genius. Sold at auction in 1998 for two million dollars, this priceless document ... Read More Rating: - Fascinating insight into history as well as the mind of Archimedes I found this DVD at the local library, and now that I've seen it, I want to know more about Archimedes, and I want to study the lost book, "The Method". I never knew how the scientific community held Archimedes in such high regard. To be labeled "centuries ahead of his time" indicates that this man could have easily reshaped our daily experiences, and the experiences of our posterity. This movie portrays the awakening of the scientific community on the the methods and thinking of a man ... 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