Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science (Volume 8) / / 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: Baxfield, Christopher,; Brodersen, Kai,; Couprie, Dirk L.,; Delire, Jean Michel,; Dillon, John M.,; Dudley Sylla, Edith,; Engels, Johannes,; Fuller, Steve,; Haubold, Johannes,; Herreman, Alain,; Hine, Harry,; Høyrup, Jens,; Irby, Georgia L.,; Knudsen, Toke L.,; Lang, Helen S.,; Long, Pamela O.,; Magrin, Sara,; Mann, Joel E.,; Montelle, Clemency,; Mota, Bernardo,; Oosterhoff, Richard,; Palmieri, Paolo,; Pead Coughlin, Sean Michael,; Pellegrin, Pierre,; Popa, Tiberiu,; Schickore, Jutta,; Shackelford, Joel,; Totelin, Laurence M. V.,; Turner, Anthony,; Verderame, Lorenzo,; Volt, Ivo,; Wallis, Faith,; Wilson, Curtis,
• HerausgeberIn: Bowen, Alan C.,; Rihll, Tracey E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Aestimatio ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (253 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 -- The First Professional Scientist:Robert Hooke and the Royal Society of London by R. D. Purrington -- How to Read Historical Mathematics by B.Wardhaugh -- Impossible Engineering:Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi byC.Mukerji -- Thomas Bradwardine, « Traité des rapports entre les rapidités dans les mouvements » suivi de Nicole Oresme, « Sur les rapports de rapports » by S. Rommevaux -- The Worlds of Oronce Fine: Mathematics, Instruments and Print in Renaissance France edited by A. Marr -- Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 3.1--7 translated by I. Mueller -- Simplicius: On Aristotle, On the Heavens 3.7--4.6 translated by I. Mueller -- Gaṇitasārakaumudī: The Moonlight of the Essence of Mathematics by T. hakkura Pherū by SaKHYa -- The Moon that Wasn’t:The Saga of Venus’ Spurious Satellite by H. Kragh with K.P.Pedersen -- Chymists and Chymistry edited by L. M. Principe -- Archeology and the Origins of Philosophy by R. Hahn -- Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science by S. Shapin -- Klaudios Ptolemaios. Handbuch der Geographie edited by A. Stückelberger and G. Graßhoff -- Une conquête des savoirs edited by M. Lejbowicz -- Pharmacy and Drug Lore in Antiquity by J. Scarborough -- The Archaic and the Exotic: Studies in the History of Indian Astronomical Instruments by S. R. Sarma -- Untersuchungen zur hippokratischen Schrift „Über die alte Heilkunst“ by B. Maucolin -- Evagrius and Gregory: Mind, Soul and Body in the Fourth Century by K. Corrigan -- When the Gods were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East by C. López-Ruiz -- Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies edited by K. A. Raaflaub and R.J.A.Talbert -- Natural Philosophy Epitomised: Books 8--11 of Gregor Reisch’s Philosophical Pearl (1503) translated by A. Cunningham and S. Kusukawa -- In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy by F.Rochberg -- Eratosthenes’ Geography by D. W. Roller -- Aristoteles Latinus: Meteorologica.Translatio Guillelmi de Moerbeka by G.Vuillemin-Diem -- Apollonius de Perge. La section des droits selon des rapports. Commentaire historique et mathématique, édition et traduction du texte arabe by R. Rashed and H. Bellosta -- Worldviews by R. DeWitt -- Alessandro d’Afrodisia, Il Destino edited and translated by C. Natali and E.Tetamo -- Aetna edited and translated by R. Ellis with K. Volk -- New Perspectives on Aristotle’s De caelo edited by A. C. Bowen and C. Wildberg -- Theophrastus and His World by P. Millet -- The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics edited by E. Robson and J. Stedall -- La via delle acque (1500--1700) by C. S. Maffioli -- Selling Science in the Age of Newton by J. R. Wigelsworth -- Books Received