books received

books received
Aestimatio 6 (2009)
Peter Adamson, Al-Kindı̄. Oxford/New York: Oxford University
Press, 2007.
Peter Adamson ed. In the Age of al-Fārābı̄ Arabic Philosophy in
the Fourth/Tenth Century. London/Turin: The Warburg Institute/Nino Aragno Editore, 2008.
Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim edd. AstroMedicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West. Florence:
SISMEL-Edizioni del Galuzzo, 2008.
Linos G. Benakis, Michael Psellos. Kommentar zur Physik des Aristoteles. Athens: The Academy of Athens, Research Center for
Greek and Latin Literature, 2008.
Marco Beretta, The Alchemy of Glass: Counterfeit, Imitation, and
Transmutation in Ancient Glassmaking. Sagamore Beach, MA:
Science History Publications/USA, 2009.
Charles Burnett, Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages: The Translators and Their Intellectual and Social Contexts. Burlington,
VT/Farnham, UK Ashgate, 2009.
José Chabás and Bernard R. Goldstein, The Astronomical Tables of
Giovanni Bianchini. Leiden/London: Brill, 2009.
Kevin Corrigan, Evagrius and Gregory: Mind, Soul and Body in the
Fourth Century. Farnham, UK/Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009.
Patrick Gautier Dalché, La géographie de Ptolémée en occident
(IVe-XVIe siècle). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2009.
Isabelle Demars and Giles Maloney edd. Une leçon d’Hippocrate.
La santé dans un environment nordique. Québec, Canada: Les
Éditions du Sphinx, 2008.
Leo Depuydt, The Other Mathematics: Language and Logic in
Egyptian and in General. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2008.
Roger L. Emerson, Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the
Scottish Enlightenment: ‘Industry, Knowledge and Humanity’.
Farnham, UK/Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009.
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Ruth Glasner, Averroes’ Physics: A Turning Point in Medieval Natural Philosophy. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press,
2009.
Michèle Goyens, Pieter De Leemans, and An Smets edd. Science
Translated: Latin and Vernacular Translations of Scientific
Treatises in Medieval Europe. Leuven: Leuven University Press,
2008.
Nigel Hiscock, The Symbol at Your Door: Number and Geometry
in Religious Architecture in the Greek and Latin Middle Ages.
Aldershot, UK/Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007.
Sarah Iles Johnston, Ancient Greek Divination. Malden, MA/Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
George Gheverghese Joseph, A Passage to Infinity: Medieval Indian
Mathematics from Kerala and Its Impact. New Delhi, India:
Sage Publications, 2009.
Helge Kragh and Kurt Møller Pederson, The Moon that Wasn’t:
The Saga of Venus’ Spurious Satellite. Basel/Boston/Berlin:
Birkhäuser, 2008.
Max Lejbowicz ed. Une conquête des savoirs. Les traductions dans
l’Europe latine (fin du XIe siècle — milieu du XIIIe siècle).
Actes du colloque organisé à la Fondation Singer-Polignac le
jeudi 27 novembre 2008. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2009.
Brice Maucolin, Untersuchungen zur hippokratischen Schrift „Über
die alte Heilkunst“. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009.
Ian Mueller, Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 3.1--7. London: Duckworth, 2009.
Ian Mueller, Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 3.7--4.6. London: Duckworth, 2009.
Chandra Mukerji, Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi. Princeton/Oxford: Princeton
University Press, 2009.
Paolo Palmieri, Reenacting Galileo’s Experiments: Rediscovering the
Techniques of Seventeenth-Century Science with a Preface by
William R. Shea. Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: Edwin Mellen
Press, 2008.
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David Pingree, Historic Scientific Instruments of the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum: 2. Eastern Astrolabes. Chicago:
Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, 2009.
Kim Plofker, Mathematics in India. Princeton/Oxford: Princeton
University Press, 2009.
Anthony Preus, Historical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Philosophy.
Lanham, MD/Toronto/Plymouth, UK: Scarecrow Press, 2007.
Robert D. Purrington, The First Professional Scientist: Robert
Hooke and the Royal Society of London. Basel/Boston/Berlin:
Birkhäuser, 2009.
Roshdi Rashed ed. Apollonius de Perge, Coniques. Tome 2.2: Livre
IV. Commentaire historique et mathématique, édition et traduction du texte arabe. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009.
Roshdi Rashed ed. Apollonius de Perge, Coniques. Tome 4 Livres
VI et VII. Commentaire historique et mathématique, édition et
traduction du texte arabe. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter,
2009.
Eleanor Robson, Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History.
Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008.
Duane W. Roller, Eratosthenes’ Geography: Fragments Collected
and Translated with Commentary and Additional Material.
Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Sabine Rommevaux, Thomas Bradwardine,« Traité des rapports
entre les rapidités dans les mouvements » suivi de Nicole
Oresme, « Sur les rapports de rapports ». Introduction, traduction, et commentaire. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2010.
Sreerama Rajeswara Sarma, Takanori Kusuba, Takao Hayashi,
and Michio Yano, Gan.itakasārakaumudı̄: The Moonlight of
the Essence of Mathematics by T
. hakkura Pherū. Edited with
Introduction, Translation, and Mathematical Commentary. New
Delhi: Manohar, 2009.
John Scarborough, Pharmacy and Drug Lore in Antiquity: Greece,
Rome, Byzantium. Farnham, UK/Burlington, VT: Ashgate,
2010.
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Books Received 2009
Alfred Stückelberger and Gerd Graßhoff edd. Klaudios Ptolemaios.
Handbuch der Geographie. Einleitung, Text und Übersetzung,
Index. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2006.
Miira Tuominen, The Ancient Commentators on Plato and Aristotle. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009.
Glen van Brummelen, The Mathematics of the Heavens and the
Earth: The Early History of Trigonometry. Princeton/Oxford:
Princeton University Press, 2009.
Ruth Webb, Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient
Rhetorical Theory and Practice. Farnham, UK/Burlington, VT:
Ashgate, 2009.
Anne Gabrièle Wersinger, La sphère et l’intervalle. Le schème de
l’harmonie dans la pensée des anciens Grecs d’Homère à Platon. Grenoble: Éditions Jérôme Millon, 2008.
Bronwen L. Wickkiser, Asklepios, Medicine, and the Politics of Healing in Fifth-Century Greece: Between Craft and Cult. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.