Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science (Volume 8)

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.

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• Table of Contents (page 5)
• Preface (page 9)
• Anthony Turner on The First Professional Scientist: Robert Hooke and the Royal Society of London by R. D. Purrington (page 11)
• Alain Herreman on How to Read Historical Mathematics by B. Wardhaugh (page 22)
• Pamela O. Long on Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi by C.Mukerji (page 26)
• Edith Dudley Sylla on Thomas Bradwardine, « Traité des rapports entre les rapidités dans les mouvements » suivi de Nicole Oresme,« Sur les rapports de rapports » by S. Rommevaux (page 33)
• Bernardo Mota on The Worlds of Oronce Fine: Mathematics, Instruments and Print in Renaissance France edited by A. Marr (page 40)
• Sean Michael Pead Coughlin on Simplicius: On Aristotle On the Heavens 3.1--7 translated by I. Mueller (page 44)
• Pierre Pellegrin on Simplicius: On Aristotle, On the Heavens 3.7--4.6 translated by I. Mueller (page 51)
• Jean Michel Delire on Ganitasarakaumudi: The Moonlight of the Essence of Mathematics by Thakkura Pheru by SaKHYa (page 53)
• Curtis Wilson on The Moon that Wasn't: The Saga of Venus' Spurious Satellite by H. Kragh with K.P. Pedersen (page 65)
• Joel Shackelford on Chymists and Chymistry edited by L. M. Principe (page 76)
• Dirk L. Couprie on Archeology and the Origins of Philosophy by R. Hahn (page 88)
• Steve Fuller on Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science by S. Shapin (page 107)
• Johannes Engels on Klaudios Ptolemaios. Handbuch der Geographie edited by A. Stückelberger and G. Graßhoff (page 111)
• Faith Wallis on Une conquête des savoirs edited by M. Lejbowicz (page 120)
• Laurence M. V. Totelin on Pharmacy and Drug Lore in Antiquity by J. Scarborough (page 126)
• Toke L. Knudsen on The Archaic and the Exotic: Studies in the History of Indian Astronomical Instruments by S. R. Sarma (page 131)
• Joel E. Mann on Untersuchungen zur hippokratischen Schrift OE Über die alte Heilkunst? by B. Maucolin (page 138)
• John M. Dillon on Evagrius and Gregory: Mind, Soul and Body in the Fourth Century by K. Corrigan (page 142)
• Johannes Haubold on When the Gods were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East by C. López-Ruiz (page 146)
• Kai Brodersen on Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies edited by K. A. Raaflaub and R.J.A. Talbert (page 152)
• Richard Oosterhoff on Natural Philosophy Epitomised: Books 8--11 of Gregor Reisch's Philosophical Pearl (1503) translated by A. Cunningham and S. Kusukawa (page 159)
• Lorenzo Verderame on In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy by F. Rochberg (page 172)
• Georgia L. Irby on Eratosthenes' Geography by D. W. Roller (page 180)
• Tiberiu Popa on Aristoteles Latinus: Meteorologica. Translatio Guillelmi de Moerbeka by G. Vuillemin-Diem (page 189)
• Clemency Montelle on 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 (page 193)
• Jutta Schickore on Worldviews by R. DeWitt (page 198)
• Sara Magrin on Alessandro d'Afrodisia, Il Destino edited and translated by C. Natali and E. Tetamo (page 202)
• Harry Hine on Aetna edited and translated by R. Ellis with K.Volk (page 215)
• Helen S. Lang on New Perspectives on Aristotle's De caelo edited by A. C. Bowen and C. Wildberg (page 219)
• Ivo Volt on Theophrastus and His World by P. Millet (page 222)
• Jens Høyrup on The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics edited by E. Robson and J. Stedall (page 235)
• Paolo Palmieri on La via delle acque (1500--1700) by C. S. Maffioli (page 243)
• Christopher Baxfield on Selling Science in the Age of Newton by J. R. Wigelsworth (page 247)
• Books Received (page 251)