The Reviel Netz study in Cognitive History
The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics
Cambridge 1999 arrived at our library, and I have borrowed it and am busily
devouring it.
The name Russo is not in the index, and hence the thesis that, in Euclid
Book I for instance, the "definitions" are really an introduction to the
text becomes weaker if Russo's thesis that has the so-called platonic
definitions added later by Heron is accepted. Unless one wants to say that
those definitions are an introduction in the redacted text. About these
definitions David Fowler gets to play the part of Hume to Netz's Kant:
David Fowler had to wake me from my dogmatic slumbers. Page 94.
I have read enough to see that this is destined to be a very controversial
text, and I can see that I shall be awakened by Reviel Netz over and over
again.
By the way, can someone supply us with an e-mail address for Netz?
Best wishes,
Sam Kutler