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Volume 3 (2006)

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Aestimatio 3 (2006)

1–13

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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


Aestimatio 3 (2006)

14–18

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Author(s)

John Murdoch

Title

In memoriam Marshall Clagett

Article Mounted

18 December 2006

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Aestimatio 3 (2006)

19–31

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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

Aestimatio 3 (2006)

32–38

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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

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Aestimatio 3 (2006)

39–43

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Book Author(s)

Andrew Smith

Book Title

Philosophy in Late Antiquity

Reviewer

Sara Ahbel-Rappe

Review Mounted

18 January 2007

Aestimatio 3 (2006)

44–47

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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

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Aestimatio 3 (2006)

48–51

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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

Aestimatio 3 (2006)

52–55

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Book Author(s)

Michael Cooper and Michael Hunter, edd.

Book Title

Robert Hooke: Tercentennial Studies

Reviewer

Stephen Gaukroger

Review Mounted

31 January 2007

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Aestimatio 3 (2006)

56–61

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Book Author(s)

Gianluigi Pasquale

Book Title

Aristotle and the Principle of Non-Contradiction

Reviewer

Edward C. Halper

Review Mounted

19 February 2007


Aestimatio 3 (2006)

62–71

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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

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Aestimatio 3 (2006)

72–75

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Book Author(s)

Stephen C. McCluskey

Book Title

Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe

Reviewer

Daryn Lehoux

Review Mounted

06 March 2007


Aestimatio 3 (2006)

76–88

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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

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Aestimatio 3 (2006)

89–96

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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


Aestimatio 3 (2006)

97–104

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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

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Aestimatio 3 (2006)

105–106

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Book Author(s)

Asger Aaboe

Book Title

Episodes from the Early History of Astronomy

Reviewer

John P. Britton

Review Mounted

28 March 2007


Aestimatio 3 (2006)

107–112

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Book Author(s)

Jean Christianidis ed.

Book Title

Classics in the History of Greek Mathematics

Reviewer

Fabio Acerbi

Review Mounted

02 May 2007

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Aestimatio 3 (2006)

113–117

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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


Aestimatio 3 (2006)

118–121

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Author(s)

John P. Britton

Title

In memoriam Asger Hartvig Aaboe

Article Mounted

27 May 2007


Aestimatio 3 (2006)

122–130

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Book Author(s)

Timothy Chappell

Book Title

Reading Plato’s Theaetetus

Reviewer

Joshua J. Reynolds

Review Mounted

27 May 2007

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Aestimatio 3 (2006)

131–141

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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

Aestimatio 3 (2006)

142–146

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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

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Aestimatio 3 (2006)

147–151

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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

Aestimatio 3 (2006)

152–161

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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

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Aestimatio 3 (2006)

162–165

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Book Author(s)

Roger Beck

Book Title

A Brief History of Ancient Astrology

Reviewer

Katharina Volk

Review Mounted

08 July 2007

Aestimatio 3 (2006)

166–169

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Book Author(s)

David Sider

Book Title

The Fragments of Anaxagoras: Introduction, Text, and Commentary

Reviewer

Daniel W. Graham

Review Mounted

08 July 2007

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Aestimatio 3 (2006)

170–174

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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

Aestimatio 3 (2006)

175–176

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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

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Aestimatio 3 (2006)

177–180

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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

Aestimatio 3 (2006)

181–187

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Book Author(s)

Gabriela Roxana Carone

Book Title

Plato’s Cosmology and Its Ethical Dimensions

Reviewer

Donald J. Zeyl

Review Mounted

09 September 2007

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Aestimatio 3 (2006)

188–190

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Books Received

2006

Mounted

09 September 2007


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