Why the Ancient Greeks Matter: The Problematic Miracle that was Greece - Hardcover

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9781009505598: Why the Ancient Greeks Matter: The Problematic Miracle that was Greece

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The Greeks were consequential, not by creating 'timeless values' but by questioning them, thereby laying the foundations of modern science.

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REVIEL NETZ is Patrick Suppes Professor of Greek Mathematics and Astronomy in the Department of Classics at Stanford University. He is the author of many celebrated books, including (with William Noel) the bestselling The Archimedes Codex: Revealing the Secret of the World's Greatest Palimpsest (Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 2007, winner of the Neumann Prize), and the path-breaking The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics (1999, winner of the Runciman Award), Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture (2020, winner of the 2021 Classical Studies category PROSE Award), and A New History of Greek Mathematics (2022, shortlisted for the Runciman Award), all published by Cambridge University Press.

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