Profile

Director, Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science

Editor, Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science (with T. E. Rihll)

Editor, Interpretatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science. Series A and B (with F. Rochberg)

bowen@IRCPS.org

Research Interests

History and philosophy of Greco-Latin science (aspecially astronomy, harmonic science), ancient philosophy

Work in Progress

1. The Night before Ptolemy: The Emergence of Hellenistic Planetary Theory
2. Simplicius in Paris: The Medieval Christian Reading of Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle’s De caelo
3. Prolegomena to a Science of the Heavens: Problemata 15 in Parisinus graecus 2036
4. Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science and Its Contexts ed. with Francesca Rochberg (for Brill 2017)
5. Ptolemy’s Philosophy and Its Greek, Arabic and Hebrew Reception ed.with E. Gannagé 
6. ‘Ptolemy’s μαθηματική and Saving the Phenomena’ 
7. Development of EKOH—Early Knowledge of the Heavens: A Digital Library for Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Contexts in Pre-Modern Times ( with F. Rochberg)

Bibliography in Development

Christian Wildberg and I have prepared Aristotle's De caelo: A Bibliography and will eventually convert it into a proper database. Readers who detect errors in it or who wish to reports items for inclusion are invited to contact me.

Publications: 

2017–03–11 ACBPublications.pdf