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

54 312. Ancient Greek & Roman contexts
1008. ASPER, Markus. “Mathematik, Milieu, Text:
Die frühgrieschische(n) Mathematik(en) und ihr Umfeld.”
Sudhoffs Arch. 87 (2003): 1–31.
1009. BURNYEAT, M. F. “Archytas and Optics.”
Special Issue: Early Science [ref. 22]. Sci. Context 18
(2005): 35–53.
“I aim to show that the brilliant Pythagorean mathematician
Archytas of Tarentum was the founder of ancient Greek
mathematical optics.” (from the abstract)
1010. DECORPS-FOULQUIER, Micheline. “Sur
les rencontres entre sections dans les Coniques
d’Apollonius de Perge : remarques sur le texte grec de
la préface du Livre I.” In MORELON and HASNAWI
[ref. 21], 427–435.
1011. HUFFMAN, Carl A. Archytas of Tarentum:
Pythagorean, Philosopher and Mathematician King.
(xv + 665 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Cambridge: Cambridge
Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN: 0521837464.
1012. KLINTBERG, Bo. “Hipparchus’s 3600’-Based
Chord Table and Its Place in the History of Ancient
Greek and Indian Trigonometry.” Indian J. Hist. Sci.
40 (2005): 169–203.
1013. NETZ, Reviel, Fabio ACERBI, and Nigel WIL-
SON. “Towards a Reconstruction of Archimedes’
Stomachion.” Sciamvs 5 (2004): 67–99.
1014. ROBERTSON, David G. “Chrysippus on Mathematical
Objects.” Ancient Phil. 24 (2004): 169–191.
1015. SIDOLI, Nathan. “Ptolemy’s Mathematical
Approach: Applied Mathematics in the Second Century.”
Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65 (2005): 3962.
Dissertation at the University of Toronto, 2004. Adviser:
Jones, Alexander. UMI pub no. NQ94376. 281 pp.
1016. TYBJERG, Karin. “The Point of Archimedes.”
Early Sci. Med. 10 (2005): 566–577.
Essay review of ARCHIMEDES [ref. 1007]; Reviel NETZ,
Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean
World (2004).
312-110. ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY
1017. BEERE, Jonathan B. “Counting the Unmoved
Movers: Astronomy and Explanation in Aristotle’s
Metaphysics XII.8.” Arch. Gesch. Phil. 85 (2003):
1–20.
1018. BOWEN, Alan C. “Geminus and the Length of
the Month: The Authenticity of Intro. Ast. 8.43-45.”
J. Hist. Astron. 37 (2006): 193–202.
1019. DUKE, Dennis. “Comment on the Origin of
the Equant Papers by Evans, Swerdlow, and Jones.”
J. Hist. Astron. 36 (2005): 1–6.
1020. DUKE, Dennis W. “Analysis of the Farnese
Globe.” J. Hist. Astron. 37 (2006): 87–100.
On the 2nd-century Roman sculpture.
1021. JONES, Alexander, and Dennis DUKE.
“Ptolemy’s Planetary Mean Motions Revisited.” Centaurus
47 (2005): 226–235.
1022. JONES, Alexander. “Ptolemy’s Ancient Planetary
Observations.” Ann. Sci. 63 (2006): 255–290.
1023. JONES, Alexander. “Ptolemy’s Canobic Inscription
and Heliodorus’ Observation Reports.” Sciamvs
6 (2005): 53–97.
1024. KURTIK, Gennadij, and Alexander MIL-
ITAREV. “Once More on the Origin of Semitic and
Greek Star Names: An Astronomic-Etymological
Approach Updated.” Cult. Cosmos 9 (2005): 3–43.
1025. REDONDO REYES, Pedro. “La armonía de las
esferas según Claudio Ptolomeo.” MHNH 3 (2003):
181–202.
The author finds similarity between the Greek musical scale
and planetary distances given by Ptolemy.
1026. SALCEDO PARRONDO, Maria C.
“AΠΛANEIΣ AΣTEΠEΣ: Las estrellas fijas en Filón
de Alejandría.” MHNH 3 (2003): 217–228.
1027. SIDOLI, Nathan. “Heron’s Dioptra 35 and
Analemma Methods: An Astronomical Determination
of the Distance between Two Cities.” Centaurus
47 (2005): 236–258.
1028. SWERDLOW, N. M. “Ptolemy’s Theories of
the Latitude of the Planets in the Almagest, Handy
Tables, and Planetary Hypotheses.” In BUCHWALD
and FRANKLIN [ref. 128], 41–71.
312-111. ASTROLOGY
1029. ALESSE, Francesca. “Il tema dell’emanazione
(aporroia) nella letteratura astrologica e non astrologica
tra I sec. a.C. e II sec. d.C.” MHNH 3 (2003):
117–133.
An effort to show the connections between the use of this
term in astrological texts and in medical, philosophical, and
religious texts.
1030. BAUTISTA, Hilario. “Antíoco de Atenas: propuestas
metodológicas para una edición crítica de
su obra.” Translated title: [Antiochus of Athens:
Methodologic proposals for a critical edition of its
work.] In Spanish. MHNH 5 (2005): 157–176.
1031. BECK, Roger. Beck on Mithraism: Collected
Works with New Essays. Ashgate Contemporary
Thinkers on Religion. (370 pp.) Aldershot (Engalnd):
Ashgate, 2004. ISBN: 0754640817.
Includes discussion of astronomy and astrology in Mithraism.
1032. BEZZA, Giuseppe. “Per un lessico astrologico:
glossario dei termini tecnici dell’Isagoge di Paolo
d’Alessandria.” MHNH 5 (2005): 277–305.
1033. CALVO MARTÍNEZ, José Luis. “¿Licnomancia
o petición de demon páredros? Edición con comentario
de fragmentos hímnicos del PGM I 262–
347.” MHNH 5 (2005): 263–275.
1034. DILLON, John. “Plotino y su tratado, Sobre
si los astros influyen [Emn. II 3].” MHNH 3 (2003):
149–158.
1035. FROMMHOLD, Katrin. Bedeutung und Berechnung
der Empfängnis in der Astrologie der Antike.
Orbis antiquus 38. (viii + 296 pp.; bibl.; index.)
Münster: Aschendorff, 2004. ISBN: 3402054175.
1036. HÜBNER, Wolfgang. “Triste Minervae sidus
(Verg. AEN. 11,259f).” MHNH 5 (2005): 177–188.
1037. KOMOROWSKA, Joanna. “Hephaestio of
Thebes and the Proems of Apotelesmatica.” MHNH 3
(2003): 159–179.
1038. MACÍAS, Cristobal, and Marta GONZÁLEZ.
“El Banquete de Metodio de Olimpo y sus argumentos
contra la astrología.” MHNH 5 (2005): 307–341.