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

éception vernaculaire – Lateinischer Text und volkssprachige
Rezeption. Edited by Baudouin VAN DEN
ABEELE and Heinz MEYER. De diversis artibus, 74.
(xii + 327 pp.; ill.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2005. ISBN:
250352298X.
1084. BRENTJES, Sonja, Benno VAN DALEN, and
François CHARETTE. “Introduction.” Special issue:
“Certainty, Doubt, Error: The Production of
Knowledge and Its Imped in the Practice of Pre- and
Early Modern Science.” Early Sci. Med. 7 (2002):
173–180.
Papers from a conference in celebration of David A. King’s
60th birthday. Contents: BURNETT [ref. 704]; BENNETT
[ref. 1287]; ENDRESS [ref. 661]; LANGERMANN [ref. 1088];
GUTAS [ref. 665]; GOLDSTEIN [ref. 1101]; TIHON [ref. 726];
MCCLUSKEY [ref. 1143]; SAMSÓ [ref. 708]; GRASSHOFF
[ref. 664].
1085. CIFUENTES I COMAMALA, Lluís. La ciència
en català a l’Edat Mitjana i el Renaixement. Collecció
Blanquerna, 3. (410 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona; Palma de Mallorca:
Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2002. ISBN:
8483383144.
Reviews: [ref. R155]
1086. CLARK, Elizabeth A. “Theory and the Study
of Premodernity: Introduction.” J. Medieval Early
Mod. Stud. 36 (2006): 1.
Introduction to a special issue on this topic. Contributors
include: Laura Camille AGOSTON, Daniel BOYARIN, Sarah
KAY, Katherine C. LITTLE, Moshe SLUHOVSKY, and Paul
STROHM.
1087. DENERY, Dallas G. Seeing and Being Seen
in the Later Medieval World: Optics, Theology and
Religious Life. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life
and Thought: Fourth Series, 63. (x + 202 pp.; bibl.;
index.) New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005.
ISBN: 0521827841.
1088. LANGERMANN, Y. Tzvi. “Criticism of Authority
in The Writings of Moses Maimonides and
Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.” Early Sci. Med. 7 (2002):
255–275.
Discusses Maimonides’ remarks on the possibility of astronomical
knowledge and on the teleological explanation in the
Medieval scientific enterprise.
1089. MEIER, Christel, Stefan SCHULER, and Marcus
HECKENKAMP. (Eds.) Die Enzyklopädie im
Wandel vom Hochmittelalter bis zur Frühen Neuzeit.
Münstersche Mittelalter-Schriften, 78. (589 pp.;
ill.; bibl.; index.) München: W. Fink, 2002. ISBN:
3770534263.
Includes: Wolfgang HÜBNER, “Der descensus als ordnendes
Prinzip in der ‘Naturalis historia’ des Plinius,” 25-41; Isabelle
DRAELANTS, “Introduction à l’étude d’Arnoldus Saxo et
aux sources du ‘De floribus rerum naturalium’ ,” 85-121;
Dmitri ABRAMOV, “Die moralisierende Enzyklopädie ‘Liber
de naturis rerum’ von Pseudo-John Folsham,” 123-154;
Christian HÜNEMÖRDER, “Ist der Text von Thomas III mehr
als eine bloße Kombination aus mehreren naturkundlichen
Enzyklopädien?” 155-168; Benedikt Konrad VOLLMANN,
“Enzyklopädie im Wandel: Thomas von Cantimpré, De
natura rerum,” 169-180; Georg STEER, “Das ‘Buch von den
natürlichen Dingen’ Konrads von Megenberg - ein ‘Buch
der Natur’?” 181-188; Michael ROTHMANN, “Totius orbis
descriptio. Die ‘Otia Imperialia’ des Gervasius von Tilbury:
Eine höfische Enzyklopädie und die scientia naturalis,” 189-
224; Bernhard PABST, “Die Vers-Enzyklopädie Gregors von
320. Medieval Western European contexts 57
Montesacro. Ein Werk aus dem Apulien Friedrichs II. im
Spannungsfeld von lateinisch-monastischer Tradition, neuer
Naturphilosophie und neuen Wissensquellen greichischarabischer
Provenienz,” 225-244; Monique PAULMIER-
FOUCART and Stefan SCHULER, “Qualiter investigandi
sunt salubres fontes. La réception du discours hydrologique
de Vitruve au Moyen Age: le cas du ‘Speculum naturale’
de Vincent de Beauvais,” 269-278; Baudouin VAN DEN
ABEELE, “Moralisierte Enzyklopädien in der Nachfolge von
Bartholomäus Anglicus: das ‘Multifarium’ in Wolfenbüttel
und der ‘Liber de exemplis et similitudinibus rerum’ des
Johannes de Sancto Geminiano,” 279-304.
1090. WHITNEY, Elspeth. Medieval Science and
Technology. Greenwood Guides to Historic Events
of the Medieval World. (ix + 258 pp.; bibl.; index.)
Westport: Greenwood, 2004. ISBN: 0313325197.
Reviews: [ref. R981]
320-3. SOURCES OF INFORMATION
1091. LIVESEY, Steven J. “Medieval Latin Aristotle
Commentators: Addenda and Biographical Precisions.”
Bull. Phil. Médiév. 43 (2001): 95–132.
320-4. ENCYCLOPEDIAS; DICTIONARIES;
REFERENCE WORKS
1092. GRACIA, Jorge, and Timothy NOONE. (Eds.)
A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages.
Blackwell companions to philosophy, 24. (xxi + 739
pp.; bibl.; index.) Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. ISBN:
0631216723.
1093. RESNICK, Irven Michael, and Kenneth
KITCHELL. Albert the Great: A Selectively Annotated
Bibliography (1900–2000). Medieval and Renaissance
texts and studies, 269. (xxii + 396 pp.; bibl.;
index.) Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval
and Renaissance Studies, 2004. ISBN: 0866983120.
320-12. STUDIES OF LINGUISTIC AND VISUAL
ASPECTS OF SCIENCE
1094. SILVI, Christine. Science médiévale et vérité :
Etude linguistique de l’expression du vrai dans le discours
scientifique en langue vulgaire. Bibliothèque de
grammaire et de linguistique, 15. (550 pp.; bibl.; index.)
Paris: H. Champion, 2003. ISBN: 2745308203.
320-22. SCIENCE AND POLITICS, LAW, AND
ECONOMICS
1095. GRANT, Edward. “Reason and Authority in
the Middle Ages: The Latin West and Islam.” In
KOERTGE [ref. 230], 40–58.
1096. MOORE, John C. “Civic Virtue and Science in
Prerevolutionary Europe.” In KOERTGE [ref. 230],
59–70.
Looks at Europe before the scientific revolution.
320-23. SCIENCE AND THE ARTS; SCIENCE AND
LITERATURE
1097. EDWARDS, Michael. “Geometric Theology
and the Meaning of Clannesse in the Poems of the
Pearl Manuscript.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/01 (2005):
186.
Dissertation at the University of California Davis, 2004.
Adviser: Osborn, Marijane. UMI pub. no. 3161418. 277 pp.