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Volume 1 (2004) | Volume 2 (2005) | Volume 3 (2006)
Book Author(s)
Jens Høyrup
Book Title
Lengths, Widths, Surfaces: A Portrait of Old Babylonian Algebra and Its Kin
Reviewer
John M. Steele
Review Mounted
08 April 2004
Book Author(s)
A. Mark Smith
Book Title
Alhacen’s Theory of Visual Perception: A Critical Edition, with English Translation and Commentary, of the First Three Books of Alhacen’s De Aspectibus, the Medieval Latin Version of Ibn al-Haytham’s Kitab al-Manazir
Reviewer
Glen M. Cooper
Review Mounted
08 April 2004
Book Author(s)
Gerrit Bos
Book Title
Maimonides: On Asthma. A Parallel Arabic-English Text
Reviewer
Mauro Zonta
Review Mounted
08 April 2004
Book Author(s)
Laurence E. Sigler
Book Title
Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci: A Translation into English of Leonardo Pisano’s Book of Calculation
Reviewer
Serafina Cuomo
Review Mounted
08 April 2004
Book Author(s)
Jan P. Hogendijk and A. I. Sabra, eds.
Book Title
The Enterprise of Science in Islam
Reviewer
Robert G. Morrison
Review Mounted
29 April 2004
Book Author(s)
Georgia L. Irby-Massie and Paul T. Keyser
Book Title
Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era: A Sourcebook
Reviewer
Tracey E. Rihll
Review Mounted
29 April 2004
Book Author(s)
Colette Sirat, Sara Klein-Braslavy and Olga Weijers, eds.
Book Title
Les méthodes de travail de Gersonide et le maniement du savoir chez les scholastiques
Reviewer
Mauro Zonta
Review Mounted
10 June 2004
Book Author(s)
Alfred L. Ivry
Book Title
Averroës: Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s De anima. A Critical Edition of the Arabic Text with English Translation, Notes, and Introduction
Reviewer
Ruth Glasner
Review Mounted
10 June 2004
Book Author(s)
Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin
Book Title
The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece
Reviewer
Paul T. Keyser
Review Mounted
22 July 2004
Book Author(s)
Annette Imhausen
Book Title
Ägyptische Algorithmen: eine Untersuchung zu den mittelägyptischen mathematischen Aufgabentexten
Reviewer
Eleanor Robson
Review Mounted
22 July 2004
Book Author(s)
Miroslav Marcovich
Book Title
Heraclitus: Greek Text with a Short Commentary
Reviewer
Daniel W. Graham
Review Mounted
12 November 2004
Book Author(s)
José Chabás and Bernard R. Goldstein
Book Title
Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the Transition from Manuscript to Print
Reviewer
Emilia Calvo
Review Mounted
12 November 2004
Book Author(s)
Jürgen Helm and Annette Winkelmann
Book Title
Religious Confessions and the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century
Reviewer
James T. Robinson
Review Mounted
20 December 2004
Book Author(s)
James Allen
Book Title
Inference from Signs: Ancient Debates about the Nature of Evidence
Reviewer
Joshua J. Reynolds
Review Mounted
20 December 2004
Book Author(s)
J. Z. Buchwald and I. B. Cohen
Book Title
Isaac Newton’s Natural Philosophy
Reviewer
Paolo Palmieri
Review Mounted
08 February 2005
Book Author(s)
Peter J. Huber and Salvo De Meis
Book Title
Babylonian Eclipse Observations from 750 BC to 1 BC
Reviewer
Bernard R. Goldstein
Review Mounted
08 February 2005
Book Author(s)
Stefano Medas
Book Title
De rebus nauticus: L’arte della navigazione nel mondo antico
Reviewer
Fabio Acerbi
Review Mounted
08 February 2005
Book Author(s)
Jean Bottéro, Clarisse Herrenschmidt, and Jean-Pierre Vernant
Book Title
Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece
Reviewer
Robert Hannah
Review Mounted
08 February 2005
Book Author(s)
Cristina Viano
Book Title
Aristoteles chemicus: Il IV libro dei ’Meteorologica’ nella tradizione antica e medievale
Reviewer
James G. Lennox
Review Mounted
07 July 2005
Book Author(s)
Reviel Netz
Book Title
The Works of Archimedes: Volume I. The Two Books on the Sphere and the Cylinder
Reviewer
Nathan Sidoli
Review Mounted
07 July 2005
Book Author(s)
Francesca Rochberg
Book Title
The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture
Reviewer
Hermann Hunger
Review Mounted
07 July 2005
Book Author(s)
David Furley
Book Title
Routledge History of Philosophy: II. From Aristotle to Augustine
Reviewer
Teun Tieleman
Review Mounted
07 July 2005
Books Received
2004
Mounted
07 July 2005
Book Author(s)
Gerrit Bos
Book Title
Maimonides: Medical Aphorisms, Treatises 1–5. A Parallel Arabic-English Edition
Reviewer
Mauro Zonta
Review Mounted
29 August 2005
Book Author(s)
Marc J. H. Linssen
Book Title
The Cults of Uruk and Babylon: The Temple Ritual Texts as Evidence for Hellenistic Cult Practice
Reviewer
John M. Steele
Review Mounted
29 August 2005
Book Author(s)
Corinna Rossi
Book Title
Architecture and Mathematics in Ancient Egypt
Reviewer
Sarah Symons
Review Mounted
29 August 2005
Book Author(s)
Jenny Strauss Clay
Book Title
Hesiod’s Cosmos
Reviewer
Joshua J. Reynolds
Review Mounted
7 September 2005
Book Author(s)
Arnaud Maillet
Book Title
The Claude Glass: Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art. Jeff Fort, Translator
Reviewer
Sven Dupré
Review Mounted
7 September 2005
Book Author(s)
George Kean Sweetnam
Book Title
The Command of Light: Rowland’s School of Physics and the Spectrum
Reviewer
J. Brian Pitts
Review Mounted
6 October 2005
Book Author(s)
Sherman Stein
Book Title
Archimedes: What Did He Do Besides Cry Eureka?
Reviewer
Henry Mendell
Review Mounted
6 October 2005
Book Author(s)
Robert Mayhew
Book Title
The Female in Aristotle’s Biology: Reason or Rationalization
Reviewer
William Wians
Review Mounted
10 October 2005
Book Author(s)
Serafina Cuomo
Book Title
Ancient Mathematics
Reviewer
Annette Imhausen
Review Mounted
10 October 2005
Book Author(s)
Wolfgang Lefèvre, ed.
Book Title
Picturing Machines 1400–1700
Reviewer
Renzo Baldasso
Review Mounted
15 November 2005
Book Author(s)
Joseph S. Fruton
Book Title
Methods and Styles in the Development of Chemistry
Reviewer
Peter J. Ramberg
Review Mounted
15 November 2005
Book Author(s)
Marlow Anderson, Victor Katz, and Robin Wilson, edd.
Book Title
Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and Other Tales of Mathematical History
Reviewer
Fernando Q. Gouvêa
Review Mounted
15 November 2005
Author(s)
Kim Plofker and Bernard R. Goldstein
Title
In memoriam David Pingree
Article Mounted
17 November 2005
Book Author(s)
Ra’anan S. Boustan and Annette Yoshiko Reed, edd.
Book Title
Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions
Reviewer
C. Robert Phillips
Review Mounted
4 January 2006
Book Author(s)
Monica Ugaglia
Book Title
Modelli idrostatici del moto da Aristotele a Galileo
Reviewer
Paolo Palmieri
Review Mounted
4 January 2006
Book Author(s)
Mi Gyung Kim
Book Title
Affinity, That Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution
Reviewer
Noel G. Coley
Review Mounted
4 January 2006
Book Author(s)
Gary Forsythe
Book Title
A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War
Reviewer
Michael P. Fronda
Review Mounted
18 January 2006
Book Author(s)
Gad Freudenthal
Book Title
Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions
Reviewer
Mauro Zonta
Review Mounted
18 January 2006
Book Author(s)
Penelope Murray and Peter Wilson edd.
Book Title
Music and the Muses: The Culture of ’Mousike’ in the Classical Athenian City
Reviewer
Massimo Raffa
Review Mounted
18 January 2006
Book Author(s)
Gary Forsythe
Book Title
A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War
Reviewer
Michael P. Fronda
Review Mounted
18 January 2006
Book Author(s)
Gad Freudenthal
Book Title
Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions
Reviewer
Mauro Zonta
Review Mounted
18 January 2006
Book Author(s)
Penelope Murray and Peter Wilson edd.
Book Title
Music and the Muses: The Culture of ’Mousike’ in the Classical Athenian City
Reviewer
Massimo Raffa
Review Mounted
18 January 2006
Book Author(s)
R. J. Hankinson
Book Title
Simplicius on Aristotle’s On the Heavens 1.5–9
Reviewer
Ian Mueller
Review Mounted
29 March 2006
Book Author(s)
David Sedley
Book Title
The Midwife of Platonism: Text and Subtext in Plato’s Theaetetus
Reviewer
Ronald Polansky
Review Mounted
29 March 2006
Book Author(s)
Indra Kagis McEwen
Book Title
Vitruvius: Writing the Body of Architecture
Reviewer
Lee Ann Riccardi
Review Mounted
29 March 2006
Book Author(s)
Gordon Campbell
Book Title
Lucretius on Creation and Evolution: A Commentary on De rerum natura 5.772–1104
Reviewer
Brooke Holmes
Review Mounted
18 July 2006
Book Author(s)
Christoph Riedweg
Book Title
Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching, and Influence. Translated from the German by Steven Rendell
Reviewer
Peter Lautner
Review Mounted
18 July 2006
Author(s)
Fabio Acerbi
Title
Archimedes and the Angel: Phantom Paths from Problems to Equations
Article Mounted
04 August 2006
Book Author(s)
William P. Berlinghoff and Fernando Q. Gouvêa
Book Title
Math through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others
Reviewer
George Gheverghese Joseph
Review Mounted
6 September 2006
Book Author(s)
Robert H. Rodgers
Book Title
Frontinus: De aquaeductu urbis Romae. Edited with Introduction and Commentary
Reviewer
John Peter Oleson
Review Mounted
6 September 2006
Author(s)
Hermann Hunger
Title
In memoriam Erica Reiner
Article Mounted
21 September 2006
Book Author(s)
David S. Potter
Book Title
The Roman Empire at Bay: AD 180–395
Reviewer
Richard Lim
Review Mounted
21 September 2006
Books Received
2005
Mounted
21 September 2006
Book Author(s)
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
Book Title
Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the ’Orphic’ Gold Tablets
Reviewer
Alberto Bernabé
Review Mounted
18 December 2006
Author(s)
John Murdoch
Title
In memoriam Marshall Clagett
Article Mounted
18 December 2006
Book Author(s)
G. E. R. Lloyd
Book Title
Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections: Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture
Reviewer
Philippa Lang
Review Mounted
18 December 2006
Book Author(s)
Trevor Murphy
Book Title
Pliny the Elder’s Natural History: The Empire in the Encyclopedia
Reviewer
Mary Beagon
Review Mounted
18 January 2007
Book Author(s)
Andrew Smith
Book Title
Philosophy in Late Antiquity
Reviewer
Sara Ahbel-Rappe
Review Mounted
18 January 2007
Book Author(s)
Ira Spar and W. G. Lambert
Book Title
Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Volume II: Literary and Scholastic Texts of the First Millennium BC
Reviewer
John Steele
Review Mounted
31 January 2007
Book Author(s)
Gianna Pomata and Nancy G. Siraisi edd.
Book Title
Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe
Reviewer
Pamela H. Smith
Review Mounted
31 January 2007
Book Author(s)
Michael Cooper and Michael Hunter, edd.
Book Title
Robert Hooke: Tercentennial Studies
Reviewer
Stephen Gaukroger
Review Mounted
31 January 2007
Book Author(s)
Gianluigi Pasquale
Book Title
Aristotle and the Principle of Non-Contradiction
Reviewer
Edward C. Halper
Review Mounted
19 February 2007
Book Author(s)
Brett D. Steele and Tamera Dorland edd.
Book Title
The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment
Reviewer
Mary M. Thomas
Review Mounted
19 February 2007
Book Author(s)
Stephen C. McCluskey
Book Title
Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe
Reviewer
Daryn Lehoux
Review Mounted
06 March 2007
Book Author(s)
Philippa Lang ed.
Book Title
Re-Inventions: Essays on Hellenistic and Early Roman Science
Reviewer
Julie Laskaris
Review Mounted
06 March 2007
Book Author(s)
Maria Silvana Celentano ed.
Book Title
Ars/Techne: Il manuale tecnico nelle civiltà greca e romana. Atti del Convegno Internazionale Università ’G. d’ Annunzio’ di Chieti-Pescara, 29–30 ottobre 2001
Reviewer
Serafina Cuomo
Review Mounted
28 March 2007
Book Author(s)
Michael J. B. Allen trans. (Latin text edited by James Hankins with William Bowen)
Book Title
Marsilio Ficino: Platonic Theology. Volume 6, Books XVII–XVIII
Reviewer
Daniel B. Gallagher
Review Mounted
28 March 2007
Book Author(s)
Asger Aaboe
Book Title
Episodes from the Early History of Astronomy
Reviewer
John P. Britton
Review Mounted
28 March 2007
Book Author(s)
Jean Christianidis ed.
Book Title
Classics in the History of Greek Mathematics
Reviewer
Fabio Acerbi
Review Mounted
02 May 2007
Book Author(s)
Gerrit Bos, Charles Burnett, and Tzvi Langermann
Book Title
Hebrew Medical Astrology: David Ben Yom Tov, Kelal qatan. Original Hebrew Text, Medieval Latin Translation, Modern English Translation
Reviewer
Mauro Zonta
Review Mounted
02 May 2007
Author(s)
John P. Britton
Title
In memoriam Asger Hartvig Aaboe
Article Mounted
27 May 2007
Book Author(s)
Timothy Chappell
Book Title
Reading Plato’s Theaetetus
Reviewer
Joshua J. Reynolds
Review Mounted
27 May 2007
Book Author(s)
John H. Pryor ed.
Book Title
Logistics of Warfare in the Age of the Crusades: Proceedings of a Workshop held at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney, 30 September to 4 October 2002
Reviewer
Barton C. Hacker
Review Mounted
18 June 2007
Book Author(s)
Agathe Keller
Book Title
Expounding the Mathematical Seed: A Translation of Bhaskara I on the Mathematical Chapter of the Aryabhatiya
Reviewer
S. R. Sarma
Review Mounted
18 June 2007
Book Author(s)
William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton edd.
Book Title
Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe
Reviewer
Cristina Viano
Review Mounted
18 June 2007
Book Author(s)
Hanne Andersen, Peter Barker, Xiang Chen
Book Title
The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Reviewer
Ryan D. Tweney
Review Mounted
08 July 2007
Book Author(s)
Roger Beck
Book Title
A Brief History of Ancient Astrology
Reviewer
Katharina Volk
Review Mounted
08 July 2007
Book Author(s)
David Sider
Book Title
The Fragments of Anaxagoras: Introduction, Text, and Commentary
Reviewer
Daniel W. Graham
Review Mounted
08 July 2007
Book Author(s)
Larrie D. Ferreiro
Book Title
Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600–1800
Reviewer
David McGee
Review Mounted
09 August 2007
Book Author(s)
Philip van der Eijk ed.
Book Title
Hippocrates in Context: Papers Read at the XIth International Hippocrates Colloquium, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 27–31 August 2002
Reviewer
Teun Tieleman
Review Mounted
09 August 2007
Book Author(s)
Helen Rhee
Book Title
Early Christian Literature: Christ and Culture in the Second and Third Centuries
Reviewer
Joel Walker
Review Mounted
09 August 2007
Book Author(s)
Gabriela Roxana Carone
Book Title
Plato’s Cosmology and Its Ethical Dimensions
Reviewer
Donald J. Zeyl
Review Mounted
09 September 2007
Books Received
2006
Mounted
09 September 2007