Volume 1 (2004)
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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