Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science (Volume 7) / / 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: Berggren, J. Lennart,; Clark, Kathleen M.,; Di Donato, Silvia,; Ducheyne, Steffen,; Freudenthal, Gad,; Hannah, John,; Heilen, Stephan,; Jong, Teije de,; Keyser, Paul T.,; Livesey, Steven J.,; Menn, Stephen,; Meriani, Angelo,; Mittenhuber, Florian,; Montelle, Clemency,; Oosterhoff, Richard,; Schechner, Sara J.,; Tieleman, Teun,; Trifogli, Cecilia,; Unguru, Sabetai,
• HerausgeberIn: Bowen, Alan C.,; Rihll, Tracey E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Aestimatio ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth by G. van Brummelen
• Eastern Astrolabes by D. Pingree
• La Ggéographie de Ptolémée en occident (IVe–XVIe siècle) by P. G. Dalché
• The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope by S. Y. Edgerton
• In the Age of al-Fārābī: Arabic Philosophy in the Fourth/Tenth Century by P. Adamson
• Apollonius de Perge, Coniques. Livre IV edited by R. Rashed
• Alexander Aphrodisiensis, De anima libri mantissa edited by R. Sharples
• Mathematics in India by K. Plofker
• Omar al-Khayyam, Algebra wa al-Muqabala translated by R. Khalil
• Reenacting Galileo’s Experiments by P. Palmieri
• Science Translated edited by M. Goyens, P. De Leemans, and A. Smets
• Averroes’ Physics by R. Glasner
• Le parole delle Muse by E. Rocconi
• Anubio Reconsidered
• In memoriam: Ian Mueller (1938--2010)
• A Response to Trifogli on Glasner, Averroes’ Physics
• The Alchemy of Glass by M. Beretta
• In memoriam: John Phillips Britton (6 December 1939
• 8 June 2010)
• Books Received