Reviel Netz
Professor, Classics
Classics Department
Bldg. 20
Stanford, CA 94305-2080
netz@stanford.edu
Background:
Reviel Netz (Professor of Classics) joins us after having spent a year as a Fellow of the Dibner Institute at MIT. He has also been a Research Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge
University. Reviel is the author of The Shaping of Deduction in Greek
Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History, 1999, Cambridge University
Press and the forthcoming "The Limits of Text in Greek Mathematics" in
History of Science, History of Text, ed. K. Chemla, and numerous articles on ancient science and philsophy. At the Dibner Institute
he studied theoretical issues arising from his book with the expectation of
writing a brief volume, "An Introduction to Cognitive History." He also prepared for Cambridge University Press a translation
with commentary of the works of Archimedes. And he works on the edition
of the newly rediscovered Archimedes Palimpsest. See the PBS television feature, Nova, Infinite Secrets.
He teaches two HPST related courses, Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome in the Autumn and The Greek Invention of Harmony and Proportion in the Spring.
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