Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science (Volume 2) / / ed. by Tracey E. Rihll, Alan C. Bowen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Acerbi, Fabio,; Baldasso, Renzo,; Coley, Noel G.,; Dupré, Sven,; Fronda, Michael P.,; Goldstein, Bernard R.,; Gouvêa, Fernando Q.,; Holmes, Brooke,; Hunger, Hermann,; Imhausen, Annette,; Joseph, George Gheverghese,; Lautner, Peter,; Lim, Richard,; Mendell, Henry,; Mueller, Ian,; Oleson, John Peter,; Palmieri, Paolo,; Phillips, C. Robert,; Pitts, J. Brian,; Plofker, Kim,; Polansky, Ronald,; Raffa, Massimo,; Ramberg, Peter J.,; Reynolds, Joshua J.,; Riccardi, Lee Ann,; Steele, John M.,; Symons, Sarah,; Wians, William,; Zonta, Mauro,
• HerausgeberIn: Bowen, Alan C.,; Rihll, Tracey E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Aestimatio ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (257 p.)

Aestimatio provides critical, timely assessments of books published in the history of what was called science from antiquity to the early modern period in cultures ranging from Spain to India, and from Africa to northern Europe. The aim is to allow reviewers the opportunity to engage critically both the results of research in the history of science and how these results are obtained.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Maimonides: Medical Aphorisms edited by G. Bos -- The Cults of Uruk and Babylon by M. J. H. Linssen -- Architecture and Mathematics in Ancient Egypt by C. Rossi -- Hesiod’s Cosmos by J.S.Clay -- The Claude Glass by A. Maillet -- The Command of Light by G. K. Sweetnam -- Archimedes by S. Stein -- The Female in Aristotle’s Biology by R. Mayhew -- Ancient Mathematics by S.Cuomo -- Picturing Machines 1400--1700 edited by W. Lefèvre -- Methods and Styles in the Development of Chemisty by J.S.Fruton -- Sherlock Holmes in Babylon edited by M. Anderson, V. Katz, and R. Wilson -- In memoriam: David Edwin Pingree (2 Jan 1933 -- 11 Nov 2005) -- Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities edited by R. S. Boustan and A.Y. Reed -- Modelli idrostatici del moto da Aristotele a Galileo by M. Ugaglia -- Affinity, That Elusive Dream by M. G. Kim -- A Critical History of Early Rome by G. Forsythe -- Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions by G. Freudenthal -- Music and the Muses edited by P. Murray and P. Wilson -- Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 1.5--9 translated by R. J. Hankinson -- The Midwife of Platonism by D. Sedley -- Vitruvius by I. K. McEwen -- Lucretius on Creation and Evolution by G. Campbell -- Pythagoras by C. Riedweg -- Archimedes and the Angel: Phantom Paths from Problems to Equations -- Math through the Ages by W.P. Berlinghoff and F. Q. Gouvêa -- Frontinus by R. H. Rodgers -- In memoriam:Erica Reiner (1924--2005) -- The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180--395 by D. S.Potter -- Books Received 2005