Aestimatio 8 (old series)

2011

ISSN 1549–4497 (online)
ISSN 1549–4470 (print)

Alan C. Bowen and Tracey E. Rihll edd.

Aestimatio os 8 (2011) complete

Anthony Turner

The First Professional Scientist: Robert Hooke and the Royal Society of London by Robert D. Purrington

Alain Herreman

How to Read Historical Mathematics by Benjamin Wardhaugh

Pamela O. Long

Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi by Chandra Mukerji

Edith Dudley Sylla

Thomas Bradwardine,«Traité des rapports entre les rapidités dans les mouvements» suivi de Nicole Oresme, «Sur les rapports de rapports». Introduction, traduction, et commentaire by Sabine Rommevaux

Bernardo Mota

The Worlds of Oronce Fine: Mathematics, Instruments and Print in Renaissance France by Alexander Marr ed.

Sean Michael Pead Coughlin

Simplicius: On Aristotle, On the Heavens 3.1-7 by Ian Mueller trans.

Pierre Pellegrin

Simplicius: On Aristotle, On the Heavens 3.7-4.6 by Ian Mueller trans.

Jean Michel Delire

Gaṇitakasārakaumudī: The Moonlight of the Essence of Mathematics by Ṭakkura Pherū. Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Mathematical Commentary by SaKHYa (= S. R. Sarma, T. Kusuba, T. Hayashi, and M. Yano)

Curtis Wilson

The Moon that Wasn’t: The Saga of Venus’ Spurious Satellite by Helge Kragh with Kurt Møller Pedersen

Jole Shackelford

Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry by Lawrence M. Principe ed.

Dirk L. Couprie

Archaeology and the Origins of Philosophy by Robert Hahn

Steve Fuller

Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority by Steven Shapin

Johannes Engels

Klaudios Ptolemaios. Handbuch der Geographie. Einleitung, Text und Übersetzung, Index by Alfred Stückelberger and Gerd Graßhoff edd.

Faith Wallis

Une conquête des savoirs. Les traductions dans l’Europe latine (fin du XIe siècle – milieu du XIIIe siècle) by Max Lejbowicz ed.

Laurence M. V. Totelin

Pharmacy and Drug Lore in Antiquity: Greece, Rome, Byzantium by John Scarborough

Toke L. Knudsen

The Archaic and the Exotic: Studies in the History of Indian Astronomical Instruments by Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma

Joel E. Mann

Untersuchungen zur hippokratischen Schrift „Über die alte Heilkunst“ by Brice Maucolin

John M. Dillon

Evagrius and Gregory: Mind, Soul and Body in the Fourth Century by Kevin Corrigan

Johannes Haubold

When the Gods Were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East by Carolina López-Ruiz

Kai Brodersen

Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J. A. Talbert edd.

Richard Oosterhoff

Natural Philosophy Epitomised: A Translation of Books 8-11 of Gregor Reisch’s Philosophical Pearl (1503) by Andrew Cunningham and Sachiko Kusukawa

Lorenzo Verderame

In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy by Francesca Rochberg

Georgia L. Irby

Eratosthenes’ Geography: Fragments Collected and Translated with Commentary and Additional Material by Duane W. Roller

Tiberiu Popa

Aristoteles Latinus: Meteorologica. Translatio Guillelmi de Moerbeka by Gudrun Vuillemin-Diem

Clemency Montelle

Apollonius de Perge, La section des droites selon des rapports. Commentaire historique et mathématique, édition et traduction du texte arabe by Roshdi Rashed and Hélène Bellosta edd.

Jutta Schickore

Worldviews: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science by Richard DeWitt

Sara Magrin

Alessandro d’Afrodisia (Tito Aurelio Alessandro), Il Destino. Trattato sul destino e su ciò che dipende da noi. Dedicato agli imperatori by Carlo Natali and Elisa Tetamo

Harry Hine

Aetna, with a New Introduction by Katharina Volk by Robinson Ellis ed. and trans.

Helen S. Lang

New Perspectives on Aristotle’s De caelo by Alan C. Bowen and Christian Wildberg edd.

Ivo Volt

Theophrastus and His World by Paul Millett

Jens Høyrup

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics by Eleanor Robson and Jacqueline Stedall edd.

Paolo Palmieri

La via delle acque (1500-1700). Appropriazione delle arti e trasformazione delle matematiche by Cesare S. Maffioli

Christopher Baxfield

Selling Science in the Age of Newton: Advertising and the Commoditization of Knowledge by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth

Staff

Books Received 2011