by Denis Guedj · TEA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788850208081
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«La chioma di Berenice» is the historical novel by Denis Guedj, published by TEA in paperback (382 pages, in Italian).
In third-century BC Alexandria, Eratosthenes, an astronomer, mathematician and geographer, undertakes at the behest of Ptolemy III Euergetes the measurement of the Earth's circumference. Palace intrigue and the sovereign's suspicious death threaten the project, which can be completed thanks to the support of Berenice and Prince Lago.
The work was originally published in 2003 as Les Cheveux de Bérénice, and this edition came out in July 2005 in the Teadue collection (number 1279).
Readers of historical fiction with a scientific background and curiosity about Ptolemaic Egypt.
Denis Guedj was a French novelist and a professor of the History of Science at Paris VIII University. He was born in Setif. He spent many years devising courses and games to teach adults and children math. He is the author of Numbers: The Universal Language and of the novel The Parrot's Theorem. He died in Paris.
