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Volume 4 (2007)

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Aestimatio 4 (2007)

1–5

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Book Author(s)

Jim Grant, Sam Gorin, and Neil Fleming edd.

Book Title

The Archaeology Coursebook: An Introduction to Study Skills, Topics and Methods. Second Edition

Reviewer

Lee Ann Riccardi

Review Mounted

24 September 2007

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

6–7

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Book Author(s)

Cristina Viano ed.

Book Title

L’Alchimie et ses racines philosophiques: La tradition grecque et la tradition arabe

Reviewer

Charles Burnett

Review Mounted

24 September 2007

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

8–12

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Author(s)

Larrie D. Ferreiro

Book Title

A Reponse to McGee on Ferreiro, Ships and Science

Article Mounted

24 September 2007

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

13–28

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Book Author(s)

G. E. R. Lloyd

Book Title

Principles and Practices in Ancient Greek and Chinese Science

Reviewer

Georgia L. Irby-Massie

Review Mounted

31 October 2007

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

29–39

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Book Author(s)

Karlheinz Schaldach

Book Title

Die antiken Sonnenuhren Griechenlands Festland und Peloponnes mit CD-ROM

Reviewer

Heike Sefrin-Weis

Review Mounted

31 October 2007

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

40–43

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Book Author(s)

Elizabeth Blyth

Book Title

Karnak: Evolution of a Temple

Reviewer

Corinna Rossi

Review Mounted

20 November 2007

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

44–55

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Book Author(s)

Christos C. Evangeliou

Book Title

Hellenic Philosophy: Origin and Character

Reviewer

Peter Lautner

Review Mounted

20 November 2007

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

56–60

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Book Author(s)

José Luis Mancha

Book Title

Studies in Medieval Astronomy and Optics

Reviewer

Y. Tzvi Langermann

Review Mounted

07 December 2007

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

61–66

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Book Author(s)

Sandra Herbert

Book Title

Charles Darwin, Geologist

Reviewer

James G. Lennox

Review Mounted

07 December 2007

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

67–78

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Book Author(s)

Ingvild Saelid Gilhus

Book Title

Animals, Gods and Humans: Changing Attitudes to Animals in Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Times

Reviewer

C. Robert Phillips III

Review Mounted

20 January 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

79–84

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Book Author(s)

Daniel W. Graham

Book Title

Explaining the Cosmos: The Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy

Reviewer

Sylvia Berryman

Review Mounted

20 January 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

85–92

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Book Author(s)

Carl A. Huffman

Book Title

Archytas of Tarentum: Pythagorean, Philosopher and Mathematician King

Reviewer

Fabio Acerbi

Review Mounted

20 January 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

93–98

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Book Author(s)

Jane Shaw

Book Title

Miracles in Enlightenment England

Reviewer

Stephen Brogan

Review Mounted

27 February 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

99–109

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Book Author(s)

Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre

Book Title

Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology

Reviewer

Georgette Taylor

Review Mounted

27 February 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

110–116

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Book Author(s)

Florian Ebeling

Book Title

The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times. Foreword by Jan Assman. Translated by David Lorton

Reviewer

Kevin van Bladel

Review Mounted

19 April 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

117–121

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Book Author(s)

Michael Trapp

Book Title

Philosophy in the Roman Empire: Ethics, Politics and Society

Reviewer

G. R. Boys-Stones

Review Mounted

19 April 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

122–141

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Book Author(s)

Menso Folkerts

Book Title

The Development of Mathematics in Medieval Europe: The Arabs, Euclid, Regiomontanus

Reviewer

Jens Høyrup

Review Mounted

17 May 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

142–145

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Book Author(s)

Hermann Hunger ed.

Book Title

Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia Including Materials by Abraham J. Sachs: Volume VI. Goal Year Texts

Reviewer

John M. Steele

Review Mounted

17 May 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

146–152

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Book Author(s)

Monte Ransome Johnson

Book Title

Aristotle on Teleology

Reviewer

William Wians

Review Mounted

09 June 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

153–160

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Book Author(s)

Alessandro Gunella and John Lamprey edd. and trans.

Book Title

Stoeffler's Elucidatio: The Construction and Use of the Astrolabe

Reviewer

James E. Morrison

Review Mounted

09 June 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

161–164

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Book Author(s)

William R. Newman

Book Title

Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution

Reviewer

Antonio Clericuzio

Review Mounted

09 June 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

165–173

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Book Author(s)

Mario Biagioli

Book Title

Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy

Reviewer

Nick Wilding

Review Mounted

23 June 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

174–177

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Book Author(s)

Geoff Andersen

Book Title

The Telescope: Its History, Technology, and Future

Reviewer

Duane H. Jaecks

Review Mounted

23 June 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

178–190

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Book Author(s)

Victor Katz ed.

Book Title

The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A Sourcebook

Reviewer

Clemency Montelle

Review Mounted

05 August 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

191–196

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Book Author(s)

Ricardo Salles

Book Title

The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism

Reviewer

Margaret Graver

Review Mounted

05 August 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

197–199

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Book Author(s)

Roy Porter ed.

Book Title

The Cambridge History of Science: Vol. 4. Eighteenth-Century Science

Reviewer

Bradford McCall

Review Mounted

07 September 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

200–205

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Book Author(s)

Holt N. Parker trans.

Book Title

Censorinus: The Birthday Book

Reviewer

Robert Hannah

Review Mounted

07 September 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

206–211

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Book Author(s)

Horst Schmieja

Book Title

Averrois opera: Commentarium magnum in Aristotelis physicorum librum septimum (Vindobonensis, lat. 2334)

Reviewer

Ruth Glasner

Review Mounted

07 September 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

212–217

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Book Author(s)

David Sider and Carl Wolfram Brunschön edd.

Book Title

Theophrastus on Weather Signs

Reviewer

Harry M. Hine

Review Mounted

25 September 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

218–221

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Book Author(s)

Dirk Baltzly ed. and trans.

Book Title

Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: III. Book 3, Part 1: Proclus on the World's Body

Reviewer

Andrew Smith

Review Mounted

25 September 2008

Aestimatio 4 (2007)

222–225

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Books Received

2007

Mounted

25 September 2007


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