Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

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698. CHARETTE, François, and Petra G. SCHMIDL.
“Al-Khwārizmī and Practical Astronomy in Ninth-
Century Baghdad. The Earliest Extant Corpus of
Texts in Arabic on the Astrolabe and Other Portable
Instruments.” Sciamvs 5 (2004): 101–198.
Contains some Arabic text and tables.
699. CHARETTE, François. “The Locales of Islamic
Astronomical Instrumentation.” Special Issue: Artisans
and Instruments, 1300–1800 [ref. 292]. Hist.
Sci. 44 (2006): 123–138.
Covers period from the mid-8th century to early 20th century.
700. KING, David. In Synchrony with the Heavens:
Studies in Astronomical Timekeeping and Instrumentation
in Medieval Islamic Civilization, vol. 2:
Instruments of Mass Calculation. Islamic Philosophy,
Theology & Science: Texts & Studies, vol. 55. (1062
pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Leiden: Brill, 2005. ISBN:
900414188X.
Reviews: [ref. 703]
701. MORELON, Régis. “Une proposition de lecture
de l’histoire de l’astronomie arabe.” In MORELON
and HASNAWI [ref. 21], 237–249.
702. SALIBA, George. “Aristotelian Cosmology and
Arabic Astronomy.” In MORELON and HASNAWI
[ref. 21], 251–268.
703. SALIBA, George. “Islamic Science at Its Best.”
J. Hist. Astron. 37 (2006): 233–238.
Essay review of David KING, In Synchrony with the Heavens
(2004); KING [ref. 700].
210-111. ASTROLOGY
704. BURNETT, Charles. “The Certainty of Astrology
in the Works of al-Qabīs.ī and Abu Ma’shar.”
Early Sci. Med. 7 (2002): 198–213.
210-112. PHYSICS AND GENERAL WORKS ON
THE EXACT SCIENCES
705. BANCEL, Faïza. “Le traité sur la théorie du
levier d’al-Muz.affar al-Isfizārī : une réécriture du
Kitāb fī al-Qarast.ūn de Thābit ibn Qurra ?” Article is
in French, with an appendix in Arabic. In MORELON
and HASNAWI [ref. 21], 321–353.
706. EL-BIZRI, Nader. “A Philosophical Perspective
on Alhazen’s Optics.” Arab. Sci. Phil. 15 (2005):
189–218.
707. FERRIELLO, Giuseppina. “The Lifter of Heavy
Bodies of Heron of Alexandria in the Iranian World.”
Nuncius 20 (2005): 327–345.
708. SAMSÓ, Julio. “Is a Social History of Andalusí
Exact Sciences Possible?” Early Sci. Med. 7 (2002):
296–299.
709. SEBTI, Meryem. “Le Statut ontologique de
l’image dans la doctrine avicennienne de la perception.”
Arab. Sci. Phil. 15 (2005): 109–140.
710. SIMON, Gérard. “L’expérimentation sur la
réflexion et la réfraction chez Ptolémée et Ibn al-
Haytham.” In MORELON and HASNAWI [ref. 21],
355–375.
210-114. ALCHEMY
711. EL-ESWED, Bassam. I. “Spirits: The Reactive
Substances in Jābir’s Alchemy.” Arab. Sci. Phil. 16
(2006): 71–90.
712. MIURA Nobuo. “Jābir ibn H. ayyān: The Alchemical
Thought in Early Arabic Times.” [Translated
title.] In Japanese. Kagakushi Ken. (Chem.) 32
(2005): 153–169.
210-120. EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
713. ELAMRANI-JAMAL, Abdelali. “Fragment d’un
traité de minéralogie d’al-Kindī. Présentation, texte
et traduction.” In MORELON and HASNAWI [ref. 21],
545–559.
210-131. BOTANY AND PLANT SCIENCE
714. CARABAZA BRAVO, Julia María, Expiración
GARCÍA SÁNCHEZ, J. Esteban HERNÁNDEZ
BERMEJO, and Alfonso JIMÉNEZ RAMÍREZ. Árboles
y arbustos en al-Andalus. Estudios árabes e islámicos,
Monografías, 8. (349 pp.; bibl.; index.) Madrid: Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2004.
ISBN: 8400082737.
715. KHALILIEH, Hassan S., and Areen BOULOS.
“A Glimpse on the Uses of Seaweeds in Islamic
Science and Daily Life during the Classical Period.”
Arab. Sci. Phil. 16 (2006): 91–101.
210-132. ZOOLOGY, ANATOMY, AND
PHYSIOLOGY
716. AL-GHASSANI, al-Ghitrif ibn Qudamah. Traité
des oiseaux de vol : Kitab Dawari at-tayr : le plus
ancien traité de fauconnerie arabe. Edited by Baudouin
VAN DEN ABEELE, François VIRÉ, and Detlef
MÖLLER. Bibliotheca cynegetica. (xix + 230 pp.; ill.)
Nogent-le-Roi: J. Laget, 2002. ISBN: 2854970705.
210-137. PSYCHOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE
PSYCHOLOGY
717. SMITH, A. Mark. “The Alhacenian Account of
Spatial Perception and Its Epistemological Implications.”
Arab. Sci. Phil. 15 (2005): 219–240.
210-150. MEDICAL SCIENCES IN GENERAL
718. KATOUZIAN-SAFADI, Mehrnaz. “La cornue
et l’alambic, instrument d’analyse et de preuve dans
Les Doutes sur Galien de Rāzi.” In MORELON and
HASNAWI [ref. 21], 376–389.
719. PORMANN, Peter E. “The Physician and the
Other: Images of the Charlatan in Medieval Islam.”
Bull. Hist. Med. 79 (2005): 189–227.
720. VEIT, Raphaela. “Al-Maˇgūsī’s Kitāb al-Malakī
and Its Latin Translation Ascribed to Constantine the
African: The Reconstruction of Pantegni, Practica,
Liber III.” Arab. Sci. Phil. 16 (2006): 133–168.
210-153. PHARMACY
721. BELA, Zbigniew. “Who Invented ‘Avicenna’s
Gilded Pills’?” Early Sci. Med. 11 (2006): 1–10.
“Questions the belief [that] Avicenna introduced the tradition
of coating pills with gold and silver,” surveying historical
literature to the present. (from the abstract)
722. SĀBŪR ibn Sahl. The Small Dispensatory.
Translated from the Arabic by Oliver KAHL. Islamic
Philosophy, Theology, and Science, v. 53. (xiii +
237 pp.; bibl.; index.) Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill,,
2003. ISBN: 9004129960.
Translation of Agrābād ¯ īn (9th century). Reviews: [ref. R792]