Archimedes
Subtitle: the lost codex
By: by Vittorio Muscia
Publisher: Lombardi; Cinecittà 3
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Siracusa; Roma
Language: ita
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9788872602638
Notes: Archimedes (287-212 a.C.).

The DVD contains the documentary Archimedes written and directed by Vittorio Muscia.

Archimedes, the narrator of the documentary, recounts his story and the one of his hometown, the Greek city-state of Syracuse in Sicily, following the astonishing and mysterious events that led his Palimpsest to survive throughout the centuries. According to scholars, the codex was assembled in Constantinople in the 10th century from an older parchment book. Hidden in it were three major treatises of the genius: the Method of mechanical theorems, the Stomachion, and On floating bodies. In 1998 this precious book was sold at auction for an astounding sum of over two million dollars.