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

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