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Aestimatio
Sources and Studies in the History of Science

Volume 2, Number 1, 2021

Table of contents (24 articles)

Studies

  1. The Tabulae Eclypsium by Giovanni Bianchini

    José Chabás and Bernard R. Goldstein

    pp. 1–41

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    Abstract

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    The Tabulae eclypsium by Giovanni Bianchini (d. after 1469) was part of a larger work, the Flores Almagesti, on mathematical astronomy. In his work on eclipses, which hitherto has not been studied in depth, Bianchini compiled new tables, strictly adhering to Ptolemy’s procedures, and explained their use by means of worked examples to facilitate the task of computers. Bianchini’s works were influential among his contemporaries, especially Peurbach and his student Regiomontanus, with whom Bianchini corresponded. For a variety of reasons, Regiomontanus’ works have eclipsed Bianchini’s. In this article, we present one of Bianchini’s major works, with the aim of restoring a more balanced perspective on 15th-century mathematical astronomy in Europe.

  2. The Babylonian Dodecatemoria and Calendar Texts: Inverse Schemes for Determining Position and Times for the Schematic Sun and Moon

    Lis Brack-Bernsen

    pp. 43–64

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    Abstract

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    The Dodecatemoria may be understood as a very simple reproduction of the Moon’s movement: for each day in the schematic year, the Dodecatemoria-scheme gives the position of the schematic Moon in the zodiacal circle. The Moon’s angular velocity was calculated as 13°/day and the Sun’s, as 1°/day. The scheme of the Calendar Texts may also be interpreted astronomically: for each position in the zodiacal circle, it gives the date at which the schematic Moon was in that position. We know that the schemes are inverse. A closer analysis of the texts accompanying the Calendar Text (LBAT 1586+1587) shows that the Babylonians also knew and utilized that fact as well.

Discussions

  1. The Creation of the World in Jewish Esoteric Philosophy

    Igor H. De Souza

    pp. 65–77

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    Abstract

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    A discussion of Création du monde et limites du langage. Sur l’art d’écrire des philosophes juifs médiévaux by David Lemler.

  2. The Circulation of Treatises on Divination and Magic from the 12th to the 17th Century

    Pietro B. Rossi

    pp. 79–106

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    A discussion of Geomancy and Other Forms of Divination edited by Alessandro Palazzo and Irene Zavattero and of La magia naturale tra Medioevo e prima età moderna edited by Lorenzo Bianchi and Antonella Sannino.

Memorial Notices

  1. In memoriam Noel M. Swerdlow

    Alan C. Bowen and Francesca Rochberg

    pp. 107–108

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Reviews

  1. Das Horn des Steinbocks. Die Treppen und der Dachkiosk in Dendara als Quellen zum Neujahrsfest by Alexa Rickert

    Stefan Bojowald

    pp. 109–112

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  2. Aristotle and His Commentators: Studies in Memory of Paraskevi Kotzia edit­ed by Pantelis Golitsis and Katerina Ierodiakonou

    Nicholas Allan Aubin

    pp. 113–118

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  3. The Interactions of Ancient Astral Science by David Brown with contributions by Jonathan Ben-Dov, Harry Falk, Geoffrey Lloyd, Raymond Mercier, Antonio Panaino, Joachim Quack, Alexandra von Lieven, and Michio Yano

    Teije de Jong

    pp. 119–127

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  4. Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Medieval Europe and North Africa edited by Victor Katz

    Anuj Misra

    pp. 128–140

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  5. Cycles de la nature, cycles de l’histoire: de la découverte des météores à la fin de l’âge d’or edited by Estelle Bertrand and Rita Compatangelo-­Soussignan

    Courtney Roby

    pp. 141–144

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  6. Logoi and Muthoi: Further Essays in Greek Philosophy and Literature edited by William Wians

    Alberto Bernabé

    pp. 145–150

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  7. The Rhetoric ­of­ Medicine: Lessons­ of­ Professionalism from ­Ancient Greece by Nigel Nicholson and Nathan R. Selden

    Todd A. Curtis

    pp. 151–155

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  8. The Art of Divination in the Ancient Near East: Reading the Signs of Heaven and Earth by Stefan M. Maul

    Helen R. Jacobus

    pp. 156–174

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  9. Syrische Astrologie und das syrische Medizinbuch by Stefanie Rudolf

    Émilie Villey

    pp. 175–179

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  10. World Soul – Anima Mundi: The Origins and Fortunes of a Fundamental Idea edited by Christoph Helmig

    Christina Hoenig

    pp. 180–187

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  11. Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts edited by Alan C. Bowen and Francesca Rochberg

    M. J. Geller

    pp. 188–194

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  12. Michel Scot: Liber particularis, Liber physonomie. Édition critique, introduc­tion et notes by Oleg Voskoboynikov

    David Juste

    pp. 195–198

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  13. Mosaics of Knowledge: Representing Information in the Roman World by Andrew M. Riggsby

    Jason C. Morris

    pp. 199–212

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  14. Le De anima alchimique du pseudo­-Avicenne by Sébastien Moureau

    Gabriele Ferrario

    pp. 213–217

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  15. Anonymus Cantabrigiensis: Commentarium in Sophisticos Elenchos Aristotelis edited by Sten Ebbesen

    Gustavo Fernandez Walker

    pp. 218–224

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  16. Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Barbara Zipser

    Julien Devinant

    pp. 225–233

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  17. Le Physiologus grec: 1. La réécriture de l’histoire naturelle antique by Stavros Lazaris

    Baudouin Van den Abeele

    pp. 234–237

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  18. Richard de Fournival et les sciences au XIIIe siècle edited by Joëlle Ducos and Christopher Lucken

    Nicola Polloni

    pp. 238–244

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  19. Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome by Vivian Nutton

    Aileen R. Das

    pp. 245–248

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