Johan Ludvig Heiberg (historian)
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For the Danish poet, see Johan Ludvig Heiberg (poet).
Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854–1928) was a Danish philologist and historian. He is best known for his discovery of previously unknown texts in the Archimedes Palimpsest. Heiberg inspected the vellum manuscript in Constantinople in 1906, and realized that it contained mathematical works by Archimedes that were unknown to scholars at the time.
Heiberg's examination of the manuscript was with the naked eye only, while modern analysis of the texts has employed x-ray and ultraviolet light. The Archimedes Palimpsest is currently stored at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.
[edit] External links
- The Archimedes Palimpsest at the Walters Art Museum
- PDF scans of Heiberg's edition of the Works of Archimedes, now in the public domain (Text in Classical Greek)
- How do we know about Greek mathematics?
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| NAME | Heiberg, Johan Ludvig |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Danish philologist and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Denmark |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1928 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Denmark |
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