Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science (Volume 4)

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. Contents Preface The Archaeology Coursebook:An Introduction to Study Skills, Topics, and Methods by J. Grant, S. Gorin, and N. Fleming L’alchimie et ses racines philosophiques. La tradition grecque et la tradition arabe edited by Cristina Viano A Response to McGee on Ferreiro, Ships and Science Principles and Practices in Ancient Greek and Chinese Science by G. E. R. Lloyd Die antiken Sonnenuhren Griechenlands. Festland und Peloponnes mit CD-ROM by Karlheinz Schaldach Karnak: Evolution of a Temple by Elizabeth Blyth Hellenic Philosophy: Origin and Character by Christos C. Evangeliou Studies in Medieval Astronomy and Optics by José Luis Mancha Charles Darwin, Geologist by Sandra Herbert Animals, Gods and Humans: Changing Attitudes to Animals in Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Ideas by Ingvild Sælid Gilhus Explaining the Cosmos: The Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy by Daniel W. Graham Archytas of Tarentum: Pythagorean, Philosopher and Mathematician King by Carl A. Huffman Miracles in Enlightenment England by Jane Shaw Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology by Ursula Klein and Wolfgang Lefèvre The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times by Florian Ebeling. Foreword by Jan Assmann. Translated from German by David Lorton Philosophy in the Roman Empire: Ethics, Politics and Society by Michael Trapp The Development of Mathematics in Medieval Europe by Menso Folkerts Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia:Volume VI. Goal Year Texts by Hermann Hunger, including Materials by Abraham J. Sachs Aristotle on Teleology by Monte Ransome Johnson Stöffler’s Elucidatio: The Construction and Use of the Astrolabe edited and translated by Alessandro Gunella and John Lamprey Atoms and Alchemy:Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution by William R. Newman Galileo’s Instruments of Credit:Telescopes, Images, Secrecy by Mario Biagioli The Telescope, Its History,Technology, and Future by Geoff Andersen The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A Sourcebook edited by Victor J. Katz The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism by Ricardo Salles The Cambridge History of Science:Vol. 4. Eighteenth-Century Science edited by Roy Porter The Birthday Book: Censorinus translated by Holt N.Parker Averrois opera. Commentarium magnum in Aristotelis physicorum librum septimum (Vindobonensis, lat. 2334) edited by H. Schmieja Theophrastus of Eresus: On Weather Signs edited by David Sider and Carl Wolfram Brunschön Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus: III.Book 3, Part 1: Proclus on the World’s Body edited and translated by Dirk Baltzly Books Received