Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v3i1.41823
Barbara Bienias
This collection of essays edited by Florian Barrière and Caroline Bertonèche presents an anthropological and cultural approach to astronomical themes in poetic works from antiquity to the Romantic period (with emphasis on Latin literature and British Romantic poetry). Apart from the main subject, the framework spans myth, theater, natural philosophy, and musical composition. Although the reader can tell that the emphasis is on the philological aspects of works, it is done with much careful consideration of contemporary scientific and philosophical debate and a good knowledge of the critical literature.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v3i1.41806
Alan C. Bowen
Apuleius’ De mundo pr. 1–3.4 is a loose paraphrase in Latin of the Περὶ κόσμου 391a1–392b14, a treatise once thought to be by Aristotle. By focusing on differences between these two works, I aim to develop some working hypotheses that situate the De mundo in relation to critical disagreements in the second century AD about the heaven, what constitutes knowledge of it, and how this knowledge is to be gained.
阿普列乌斯的《论世界》(De mundo pr. 1-3.4)是对曾被认为出自亚里士多德之手的论文Περ κόσμου 391a1-392b14的拉丁文大意释义。通过关注这两部作品之间的差异，我的目标是提出一些可行的假设，将《世界论》与公元二世纪关于天堂的关键分歧联系起来，关于天堂的知识是什么，以及如何获得这些知识。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v3i1.41826
Émilie Villey
A Companion to Byzantine Science est un volume composé de 13 chapitres, d’une introduction de Stavros Lazaris, d’une conclusion d’Anne Tihon et de trois index (index général, index des manuscrits et index des noms modernes) réalisés par Antonio Ricciardetto. Onze des 13 chapitres sont consacrés à un domaine spécifique de la science byzantine (sur les sciences mathématiques, l’optique, la météorologie et la physique, l’astronomie et l’astrologie, la géographie, la zoologie, la botanique, la médecine et la pharmacologie, la médecine vétérinaire, l’art militaire et enfin les sciences occultes (divination, astrologie, alchimie). Les deux premiers chapitres (« ‘Inner’ and ‘Outer’ Knowledge : The Debate between Faith and Reason in Late Antiquity » d’Hervé Inglebert et « Science Teaching and Learning Methods in Byzantium » d’Immaculada Pérez Martín et Divna Manolova) constituent une sorte d’introduction à l’ensemble des sujets abordés dans le volume. L’éditeur réussit son pari en offrant ici un véritable guide utile pour faciliter l’accès aux textes grecs byzantins traitant de sciences mathématiques et naturelles.
《拜占庭科学指南》共13章，由斯塔夫罗斯·拉扎里斯(Stavros Lazaris)的导论、安妮·蒂宏(anne Tihon)的结论和安东尼奥·里恰尔代托(Antonio Ricciardetto)的三个索引(一般索引、手稿索引和现代名称索引)组成。11 - 13章的拜占庭的土地用于某一特定领域的科学(数学、光学、气象科学和物理学、天文学和占星学、动物学、植物学、地理学和医学、药理学、兽医学、军事艺术和最后的神秘学(占卜、占星术、炼金术)。前两章(«‘Inner’and‘Outer’Knowledge: The Debate between Faith in Late and Reason Antiquity科纳拉»«Inglebert和科学的教学和学习方法in Byzantium»d’Immaculada perez Mart) n和Divna Manolova导论)是所有科目中卷。出版商成功地提供了一个真正有用的指南，以方便访问拜占庭希腊文本处理数学和自然科学。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v3i1.41819
Jeffrey Kotyk
A Walk through the Iranian Heavens is an innovative and focused study by the well-known scholar Antonio Panaino. This monograph looks at cosmography in ancient Iran and adjacent cultures, with attention to the problem of sphericity in antiquity. We might take for granted that the Greeks, after a point, operated with the model of a spherical Earth, but what about Iran, which had its own Mazdean mythology and worldview but was still influenced by Hellenic culture? At what point did ancient Iran become exposed to and/or adopt a spherical Earth as well as the model of a cosmic sphere? How did this model of the universe affect the Zoroastrian worldview? These are the questions that come to mind when approaching A Walk through the Iranian Heavens.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v3i1.41807
José Chabás, Bernard R. Goldstein
The analysis of astronomical tables has proven to be a powerful tool to understand the transmission of astronomical knowledge. Further, the study of the major sets of tables compiled or in circulation in the Middle Ages has contributed significantly to mapping the thousands of tables preserved in medieval manuscripts. The present paper focuses on the relationship between two specific sets of tables, both in the framework of Alfonsine astronomy: one of hitherto uncertain authorship and a much larger one compiled by the Ferrarese astronomer Giovanni Bianchini (d. after 1469).
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v3i1.41811
M. J. Geller
The question of bloodletting in Babylonia (and surgery in general) has hardly been studied, since evidence is sparse, while at the same time bloodletting in the Babylonian Talmud has been assumed to have been employed, although based upon questionable medieval interpretations of vague and doubtful terminology. However, when descriptions from cuneiform medicine are combined with evidence from Aramaic sources, a somewhat clearer picture emerges of a possible limited use of a bloodletting procedure in Babylonia, in both earlier and later periods.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v3i1.41822
Daniel w. Graham
Aristotle’s Meteorologica is one of the least studied of Aristotle’s major works, and scholars who do study it often concentrate on its logical and theoretical aspects rather than on the empirical science contained in it. The two authors of this study are professional meteorologists from Greece: Anastasios Tsonis, emeritus distinguished professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Christos Zerefos, head of the Research Centre for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology at the Academy of Athens and professor of atmospheric physics at the Universities of Athens and Thessaloniki. They are interested in Aristotle’s work as a contribution to science and not just as an essay in the logic of scientific inquiry. This book thus fills a gap in the resources available for the study of Aristotle’s Meteorologica. I shall provide an overview of the book and then offer a critical assessment of it.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v3i1.41816
Lis Brack-Bernsen
The texts BM 36628+ and BM 45720 contain number schemes, which in their first four columns list consecutive lines of Calendar Texts. These texts add six more columns (columns 5–10) to the classic Calendar Text. Therefore, we shall call them expanded Calendar Texts. The additional column 10 lists house numbers j, while column 9 contains four signs (labeled i) over four consecutive lines, one of which equals a j-value. As we shall see, the i-values are chosen so that they always form the zodiacal squares with j as one of the corners. I investigate the system behind the schemes by analyzing their number columns. We thus find a structure similar to that of the circular tablet BM 47762, which I presented in Part I [Aestimatio ns 2.2 (2021) 43–58]. This tablet lists the dates of first half, full, second half, and black Moon, where the zodiacal position of these special lunar phases joins to a square in the zodiacal circle. I investigate the connection between the two systems.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v3i1.41818
Paolo Palmieri
This volume contains the proceedings of an international conference held in Florence at the Museo Galileo, 29–31 January 2020. There are 31 essays, including the editor’s preface. Although the subtitle indicates that the conference was “international”, the vast majority of essays are by Italian scholars. This puzzling fact is not just an item of information concerning the statistics of the volume but is important in that it may help the reader contextualize the overarching ideological and political project that gave birth to the conference. It was, in fact, a collaborative undertaking shared by five Italian universities and the Museo Galileo, which was sponsored by the Italian government (defined as a Progetto di ricerca di interesse nazionale [viii]). In the remainder of the review, I will selectively discuss some of questions raised by the essays and highlight what I see as the major strengths and weaknesses of this collective volume. I am a historian and philosopher of science. Hence, my review will be concerned mostly with historical and philosophical aspects of the science and myth of Galileo.
本卷收录了2020年1月29日至31日在佛罗伦萨伽利略博物馆举行的国际会议记录。包括编辑的序言在内，共有31篇文章。虽然副标题表明会议是“国际性的”，但绝大多数论文都是意大利学者写的。这一令人费解的事实不仅是关于该卷统计数据的一项信息，而且很重要，因为它可以帮助读者了解产生这次会议的总体思想和政治项目的背景。事实上，这是由意大利政府赞助的五所意大利大学和伽利略博物馆共同承担的一项合作事业(定义为Progetto di ricerca di interesse nazionale [viii])。在这篇评论的剩余部分，我将有选择地讨论这些论文提出的一些问题，并强调我认为这个集体卷的主要优点和缺点。我是一位历史学家和科学哲学家。因此，我的评论将主要关注伽利略的科学和神话的历史和哲学方面。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v3i1.41824
Michele Abbate
The reception of Proclus’ Elements of Theology and the Book of Causes is certainly one of the most significant and complex themes for understanding the influence of Neoplatonic thought from the sixth century to the modern age. This volume is the second of three edited by Dragos Calma, in which the proceedings of the Parisian conference (12–13 February 2016) dedicated to the reception of the Elements of Theology and the Book of Causes are published. It gathers 18 contributions (12 in English, 5 in French, and 1 in German) by various scholars who have addressed the topic in question by focusing on specific aspects of the reception of these two texts between the sixth and 16th centuries in very different periods and cultural contexts. For this reason, the weighty volume is divided into five sections according to the cultural and geographical areas examined:(1) Byzantium,(2) The Caucasus,(3) The Lands of Islam,(4) The Latin West, and(5) The Hebrew Tradition.In view of the breadth and richness of the themes dealt with, I will limit myself to some brief and summary remarks on the main topics addressed in each essay.
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