Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science (Volume 5) / / ed. by Alan C. Bowen, Tracey E. Rihll.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Beaver, Donald,; Bladel, Kevin van,; Bréard, Andrea,; Cormack, Lesley B.,; Cuomo, Serafina,; Dieleman, Jacco,; Dillon, John,; Franckowiak, Rémi,; Graham, Daniel W.,; Guinard, Patrice,; Hiscock, Nigel,; Hutton, William E.,; Imhausen, Annette,; Laywine, Alison,; Machamer, Peter,; Mandelbrote, Scott,; Mastorakou, Stamatina,; McEwen, Indra Kagis,; Melville, Duncan J.,; Pedersen, Stefan,; Raffa, Massimo,; Rihll, T. E.,; Rommevaux, Sabine,; Schiano, Claudio,; Sidoli, Nathan,; Squire, Michael,; Stephenson, Bruce,; Todd, Robert B.,; Walker, Joel T.,; Young, John T.,; Ziegler, Joseph,
• HerausgeberIn: Bowen, Alan C.,; Rihll, Tracey E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Aestimatio ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (267 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 -- Two Hippocratic Treatises, On Sight And On Anatomy Edited By E. M. Craik -- Following Pausanias Edited By M. Georgopoulou, C. Guilmet, Y. Pikoulas, K. Staikos, And G.Tolias; And Translated By D. Kazazi -- Through a Glass Darkly by K. Szpakowska -- Tablettes mathématiques de Nippur by C. Proust -- A Culture of Improvement by R. Friedel -- Harmonious Triads by M. W. Jackson -- History of Science, History of Text edited by K. Chemla -- The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece by A. Barker -- Mechanics from Aristotle to Einstein by M. J. Crowe -- Before Darwin:Reconciling God and Nature by K. Thomson -- The Symbol at Your Door by N. Hiscock -- La scuola medica Salernitana edited by D. Jacquart and A.P. Bagliani -- The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World edited by J.P. Oleson -- The Catapult:A History by Tracey E. Rihll -- Unexpected Links between Egyptian and Babylonian Mathematics and Amazing Traces of a Babylonian Origin in Greek Mathematics by J.Friberg -- The Astrolabe by James E. Morrison -- Fibonacci’s De practica geometrie edited and translated by B. Hughes -- Naturwissenschaften im Kulturvergleich by K.Wulff -- A Response to McEwen on Hiscock, The Symbol at Your Door -- The Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster by by M. McLean -- A Platonic Pythagoras edited by M. Bonazzi, C. Lévy, and C. Steel -- Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World by D.Lehoux -- Ancient Greek Cosmogony by A. Gregory -- Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy by B. T. Moran -- The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and Its Territory by P.P. Betancourt -- Alchimie et paracelsisme en France à la fin de la Renaissance (1567--1625) byD.Kahn -- Archimedes and the Roman Imagination by M. Jaeger -- Astrologia. Opere a stampa (1472--1900) by L. Cantamessa -- Philosophy and Exegesis in Simplicius by H. Baltussen -- Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul edited by S. Swain -- Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Practice by R. Webb -- The Occult Sciences in Byzantium edited by P. Magdalino and M.Mavroudi -- Books Received