Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society
Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society
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G. Chronological Classification<br />
300. PREHISTORY AND EARLY HUMAN<br />
SOCIETIES<br />
300-103. MATHEMATICS<br />
942. FRAGOULIS, D., A. SKEMBRIS, C. PA-<br />
PAODYSSEUS, P. ROUSOPOULOS, Th. PANAGOPOU-<br />
LOS, C. TRIANTAFYLLOU, A. VLACHOPOULOS, and<br />
C. DOUMAS. “Origins and Application <strong>of</strong> Geometry<br />
in the Thera Prehistoric Civilization Ca. 1650 BC.”<br />
Centaurus 47 (2005): 316–340.<br />
311. ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN SCIENTIFIC<br />
CONTEXTS<br />
311-1. GENERAL HISTORIES OF SCIENCE<br />
943. FUNKENSTEIN, Amos. “The Disenchantment<br />
<strong>of</strong> Knowledge: The Emergence <strong>of</strong> the Ideal <strong>of</strong> Open<br />
Knowledge in Ancient Israel and in Classical Greece.”<br />
Aleph 3 (2003): 15–81.<br />
311-41. SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS; THE<br />
SCIENCE OF MEASUREMENT<br />
944. POMMERENING, Tanja. Die altägyptischen<br />
Hohlmaße. Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur, Beiheft<br />
10. (xiii + 503 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Hamburg:<br />
Buske, 2005. ISBN: 3875484118.<br />
311-101. OCCULT SCIENCES AND MAGIC<br />
945. SHAKED, Shual. (Ed.) Officina Magica: Essays<br />
on the Practice <strong>of</strong> Magic in Antiquity. IJS Studies in<br />
Judaica, 4. (x + 320 pp.; bibl.; index.) Leiden: Brill,<br />
2005. ISBN: 9004144595.<br />
Many essays focus on magic in Judaic texts to the medieval<br />
period, but it also includes discussion <strong>of</strong> ancient<br />
Mesopotamia, Greek, and Zoroastrian magic.<br />
311-103. MATHEMATICS<br />
946. FRIBERG, Jöran. Unexpected Links between<br />
Egyptian and Babylonian Mathematics. (xii + 294<br />
pp.; ill.; map; bibl.; index.) Singapore: World Scientific<br />
Publishing, 2005. ISBN: 9812563288.<br />
947. MELVILLE, Duncan J. “The Area and the Side I<br />
Added: Some Old Babylonian Geometry.” Rev. Hist.<br />
Math. 11 (2005): 7–21.<br />
948. MUROI, Kazuo. “A Reexamination <strong>of</strong> the Babylonian<br />
Mathematical Text Erm 15073: A New Interpretation<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Earthwork Problems.” Hist. Scientiarum<br />
15 (2005): 191–200.<br />
949. PROUST, Christine. “A propos d’un prisme<br />
du Louvre : aspects de l’enseignement des<br />
mathématiques en Mésopotamie.” Sciamvs 6 (2005):<br />
3–32.<br />
950. YUSTE, Piedad. “Algebra and Geometry in the<br />
Old Babylonian Period: Matters Concerning Reeds.”<br />
Centaurus 47 (2005): 298–315.<br />
951. YUSTE, Piedad. “Trapezoidal Partition in Old<br />
Babylonian Geometry: A Note about Tablet TMS<br />
XXIII.” Hist. Scientiarum 14 (2004): 67–76.<br />
311-110. ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY<br />
952. BELMONTE, Juan Antonio, and Mosalam<br />
SHALTOUT. “On the Orientation <strong>of</strong> Ancient Egyptian<br />
Temples: (2) New Experiments at the Oases <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Western Desert.” J. Hist. Astron. 37 (<strong>2006</strong>): 173–192.<br />
953. BRACK-BERNSEN, Lis, and John M. STEELE.<br />
“Eclipse Prediction and the Length <strong>of</strong> the Saros in<br />
Babylonian Astronomy.” Centaurus 47 (2005): 181–<br />
206.<br />
954. STEELE, J. M. “Four Procedure Texts Concerning<br />
Jupiter’s Latitude and Synodic Motion from<br />
Babylon.” Sciamvs 6 (2005): 33–51.<br />
955. STEELE, J.M. “Miscellaneous Lunar Tables<br />
from Babylon.” Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 60 (<strong>2006</strong>):<br />
123–155.<br />
956. STEPHENSON, F.R., and J.M. STEELE. “Astronomical<br />
Dating <strong>of</strong> Babylonian Texts Describing the<br />
Total Solar Eclipse <strong>of</strong> S.E. 175.” J. Hist. Astron. 37<br />
(<strong>2006</strong>): 55–69.<br />
957. WILLIAMS, Clemency J. “Eclipse Theory in<br />
the Ancient World.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/06 (2005):<br />
2364.<br />
Dissertation at Brown University, 2005. Adviser: Pingree,<br />
David E. UMI pub. no. 3179451. 442 pp.<br />
311-150. MEDICAL SCIENCES IN GENERAL<br />
958. GELLER, Markham J. Renal and Rectal Disease<br />
Texts. Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten<br />
und Untersuchungen. (viii + 284 pp.; ill.; bibl.;<br />
index.) Berlin: de Gruyter, 2005. ISBN: 3110179644.<br />
959. HORSTMANSHOFF, H. F. J., Marten STOL,<br />
and C. R. van TILBURG. (Eds.) Magic and Rationality<br />
in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman<br />
Medicine. Studies in Ancient Medicine, 27. (xv +<br />
407 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Boston: Brill, 2004. ISBN:<br />
9004136665.<br />
Contents: M.J. GELLER, “West Meets East: Early Greek<br />
and Babylonian Diagnosis,” 11-61; M. STOL, “An Assyriologist<br />
Reads Hippocrates,” 63-78; S.M. MAUL, “Die ‘Lösung<br />
vom Bann’: Überlegungen zu altorientalischen Konzeptionen<br />
von Krankheit und Heilkunst,” 79-95; N.P. HEESSEL,<br />
“Diagnosis, Divination and Disease: Towards an Understanding<br />
<strong>of</strong> the rationale behind the Babylonian Diagnostic<br />
Handbook,” <strong>97</strong>-116; W. FARBER, “How to Marry a Disease:<br />
Epidemics, Contagion, and a Magic Ritual against the<br />
‘Hand <strong>of</strong> the Ghost’ ,” 117-132; R. DAVID, “Rationality versus<br />
Irrationality in Egyptian Medicine in the Pharaonic and<br />
Graeco-Roman Periods,” 133-151; R. ARNOTT, “Minoan<br />
and Mycenaean Medicine and Its Near Eastern Contacts,”<br />
153-173; R. THOMAS, “Greek Medicine and Babylonian<br />
Wisdom: Circulation <strong>of</strong> Knowledge and Channels <strong>of</strong> Transmission<br />
in the Archaic and Classical Periods,” 175-185;<br />
P.J. van der EIJK, “Divination, Prognosis and Prophylaxis:<br />
The Hippocratic Work ‘On Dreams’ (De victu 4) and Its<br />
Near Eastern Background,” 187-218; V. LANGHOLF, “Structure<br />
and Genesis <strong>of</strong> Some Hippocratic Treatises,” 219-275;<br />
A.E. HANSON, “Aphorismi 5.28-63 and the Gynaecological<br />
Texts <strong>of</strong> the Corpus Hippocraticum,” 277-304; M.J.<br />
GELLER, “Bloodletting in Babylonia,” 305-324; H. F. J.