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2 unusual facts about Reviel Netz


Reviel Netz

From 1983 to 1992, Netz studied at the Tel Aviv University obtaining a B.A. in Ancient History and an M.A. in History and the Philosophy of Science; from 1993 to 1995 studied Classics at Christ's Collge, Cambridge University where he obtained his doctorate in 1995.

Thomas Little Heath

His translation of the celebrated Archimedes Palimpsest, however, was based on a transcription that had lacunae, which scholars such as Reviel Netz have been able to fill in to a certain extent, by exploiting modern scientific methods of imagery not available in Heath's time.



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