The Method
The Method is a manuscript of theorems written by Archimedes in the tenth century, a palimpsested text. Steensen takes The Method and its history as a jumping-off place for a meditation on the relationships developed between a person and her historical truth. She treads carefully in the terrain...
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The Method is a manuscript of theorems written by Archimedes in the tenth century, a palimpsested text. Steensen takes The Method and its history as a jumping-off place for a meditation on the relationships developed between a person and her historical truth. She treads carefully in the terrain of fact that foregrounds investigations, and emerges centuries and centuries on.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781934200179 (1934200174)
Publish date: November 1st 2008
Publisher: Fence Books
Pages no: 61
Edition language: English
If I had to pick one word to describe The Method it would be Abstract. Or Experimental. This book works around a complex theme, focusing on the personification of the Method. I have my own ideas about what I believe the Method is, but I think this is one of those questions without a single definitiv...