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HORIZON: ARCHIMEDES' SECRET
(2002)
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Production countries
- Great Britain
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Traces the story of the earliest manuscript copy of Archimedes' revolutionary mathematical theories, which was hidden for a millennium under the surface ink of a Byzantine prayer book in a monastic library in Constantinople, where it was discovered in 1906 by the scholar Johan Ludwig Heiberg. The manuscript went missing after the First World War, and for...
Top five credits
- Director
- TUCKER, Liz
- Production Company
- BBC
- Producer
- TUCKER, Liz
- Executive Editor
- LYNCH, John
Top five cast
- narrator
- STEVENSON, Juliet