Volume 8 (2011)
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Book Author(s)
Robert D. Purrington
Book Title
The First Professional Scientist: Robert Hooke and the Royal Society of London
Reviewer
Anthony Turner
Review Mounted
07 August 2011
Book Author(s)
Benjamin Wardhaugh
Book Title
How to Read Historical Mathematics
Reviewer
Alain Herreman
Review Mounted
07 August 2011
Book Author(s)
Chandra Mukerji
Book Title
Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi
Reviewer
Pamela O. Long
Review Mounted
07 August 2011
Book Author(s)
Sabine Rommevaux
Book Title
Thomas Bradwardine,«Traité des rapports entre les rapidités dans les mouvements» suivi de Nicole Oresme, «Sur les rapports de rapports». Introduction, traduction, et commentaire
Reviewer
Edith Dudley Sylla
Review Mounted
21 August 2011
Book Author(s)
Alexander Marr ed.
Book Title
The Worlds of Oronce Fine: Mathematics, Instruments and Print in Renaissance France
Reviewer
Bernardo Mota
Review Mounted
21 August 2011
Book Author(s)
Ian Mueller
Book Title
Simplicius: On Aristotle, On the Heavens 3.1–7
Reviewer
Sean Michael Pead Coughlin
Review Mounted
21 August 2011
Book Author(s)
Ian Mueller
Book Title
Simplicius: On Aristotle, On the Heavens 3.7–4.6
Reviewer
Pierre Pellegrin
Review Mounted
21 August 2011
Book Author(s)
SaKHYa (= S. R. Sarma, T. Kusuba, T. Hayashi, and M. Yano)
Book Title
Gaṇitakasārakaumudī: The Moonlight of the Essence of Mathematics by Ṭakkura Pherū. Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Mathematical Commentary
Reviewer
Jean Michel Delire
Review Mounted
15 October 2011
Book Author(s)
Helge Kragh with Kurt Møller Pedersen
Book Title
The Moon that Wasn't: The Saga of Venus' Spurious Satellite
Reviewer
Curtis Wilson
Review Mounted
15 October 2011
Book Author(s)
Lawrence M. Principe ed.
Book Title
Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry
Reviewer
Jole Shackelford
Review Mounted
15 October 2011
Book Author(s)
Robert Hahn
Book Title
Archaeology and the Origins of Philosophy
Reviewer
Dirk L. Couprie
Review Mounted
14 November 2011
Book Author(s)
Steven Shapin
Book Title
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
Reviewer
Steve Fuller
Review Mounted
14 November 2011
Book Author(s)
Alfred Stückelberger and Gerd Graßhoff edd.
Book Title
Klaudios Ptolemaios. Handbuch der Geographie. Einleitung, Text und Übersetzung, Index
Reviewer
Johannes Engels
Review Mounted
14 November 2011
Book Author(s)
Max Lejbowicz ed.
Book Title
Une conquête des savoirs. Les traductions dans l'Europe latine (fin du XIe siècle – milieu du XIIIe siècle)
Reviewer
Faith Wallis
Review Mounted
23 November 2011
Book Author(s)
John Scarborough
Book Title
Pharmacy and Drug Lore in Antiquity: Greece, Rome, Byzantium
Reviewer
Laurence M. V. Totelin
Review Mounted
23 November 2011
Book Author(s)
Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma
Book Title
The Archaic and the Exotic: Studies in the History of Indian Astronomical Instruments
Reviewer
Toke L. Knudsen
Review Mounted
17 December 2011
Book Author(s)
Brice Maucolin
Book Title
Untersuchungen zur hippokratischen Schrift „Über die alte Heilkunst“
Reviewer
Joel E. Mann
Review Mounted
17 December 2011
Book Author(s)
Kevin Corrigan
Book Title
Evagrius and Gregory: Mind, Soul and Body in the Fourth Century
Reviewer
John M. Dillon
Review Mounted
17 December 2011
Book Author(s)
Carolina López-Ruiz
Book Title
When the Gods Were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East
Reviewer
Johannes Haubold
Review Mounted
17 December 2011
Book Author(s)
Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J. A. Talbert edd.
Book Title
Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies
Reviewer
Kai Brodersen
Review Mounted
31 December 2011
Book Author(s)
Andrew Cunningham and Sachiko Kusukawa
Book Title
Natural Philosophy Epitomised: A Translation of Books 8–11 of Gregor Reisch's Philosophical Pearl (1503)
Reviewer
Richard Oosterhoff
Review Mounted
06 January 2012
Book Author(s)
Francesca Rochberg
Book Title
In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy
Reviewer
Lorenzo Verderame
Review Mounted
06 January 2012
Book Author(s)
Duane W. Roller
Book Title
Eratosthenes' Geography: Fragments Collected and Translated with Commentary and Additional Material
Reviewer
Georgia L. Irby
Review Mounted
24 January 2012
Book Author(s)
Gudrun Vuillemin-Diem
Book Title
Aristoteles Latinus: Meteorologica. Translatio Guillelmi de Moerbeka
Reviewer
Tiberiu Popa
Review Mounted
24 January 2012
