Pub Date : 2015-12-21DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v9i0.25991
P. Kunitzsch, R. Lorch, S. Brentjes
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Pub Date : 2015-12-21DOI: 10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V5I0.25871
N. Hiscock
The publication of Indra McEwen’s Review of my book, The Symbol at Your Door [2008] is to be welcomed for several reasons. That an exploration of medieval architectural design should be reviewed in a journal of classical philosophy and science suggests an encouraging breadth of interest in the subject and recognizes the interdisciplinary intent of the book. The Journal’s policy to invite authors to respond to reviews acknowledges that critics should be as accountable as the authors and publishers of the work reviewed, a reciprocation which is much needed and long overdue. Of obvious value is the opportunity to discuss matters raised or omitted by critics and the critical methodology used. All this is most welcome.
因德拉·麦克尤恩(Indra McEwen)对我的书《你门口的符号》(The Symbol at Your Door)的评论[2008]的出版受到了欢迎,原因有几个。中世纪建筑设计的探索应该在一本古典哲学和科学杂志上发表,这表明人们对这一主题的兴趣非常广泛,并且认识到这本书的跨学科意图。《华尔街日报》邀请作者对评论作出回应的政策承认,评论家应该像被评论作品的作者和出版商一样负责,这是一种非常需要而且早就应该得到的回报。显而易见的价值是有机会讨论评论家提出或遗漏的问题以及所使用的批评方法。所有这些都是最受欢迎的。
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Pub Date : 2015-12-21DOI: 10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V8I0.25957
A. Cunningham, S. Kusukawa, R. Oosterhoff
Contents: Translators' introduction Editing principles adopted The 4 books on natural philosophy Contents page of 1503 edition, Peroration and Book 1, Tract 1, Chapter 1 'On the definition and division of philosophy' (translated) Book 8 'On the principles of natural things' (translated) Book 9 'On the origin of natural things' (translated) Book 10 'On the soul and its powers' (translated) Book 11 'On the nature, origin and immortality of the intellective soul' (translated) Bibliography of primary sources for Books 8-11 Bibliography of secondary sources for Books 8-11 Reisch's index to Books 8-11.
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Pub Date : 2015-12-21DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v8i0.25973
R. Ellis, H. Hine
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Pub Date : 2015-12-21DOI: 10.31826/9781463232436-002
A. Barker
Robert Sharples’ Philosophy and the Sciences in Antiquity 1 collects the papers delivered at a colloquium at University College London in 2003. No matter how precisely the organizer defines the subject to which such a colloquium is dedicated, the collected papers that emerge from it rarely add up to a unified whole; contributors go their own ways, sometimes with scarcely a nod to the theme that was intended to unify their efforts. The title ‘Philosophy and the Sciences in Antiquity’ is enormously capacious, and in itself points to no integrated set of questions and no one line of enquiry, so that readers looking for a cohesive treatment of a single theme may well come to it—in the words of Sydney Smith—‘with no very lively hope of success’.
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List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors xi Series Editor's Preface xvii 1 Introduction 1 Richard J. A. Talbert and Kurt A. Raaflaub 2 Where the Black Antelope Roam: Dharma and Human Geography in India 9 Christopher Minkowski 3 Humans, Demons, Gods and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India 32 Kim Plofker 4 Structured Perceptions of Real and Imagined Landscapes in Early China 43 Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu 5 Nonary Cosmography in Ancient China 64 John B. Henderson 6 Knowledge of Other Cultures in China's Early Empires 74 Michael Loewe 7 The Mississippian Peoples' Worldview 89 Kathleen DuVal 8 Aztec Geography and Spatial Imagination 108 Barbara E. Mundy 9 Inca Worldview 128 Catherine Julien 10 Masters of the Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early Mesopotamian Writings 147 Piotr Michalowski 11 The World and the Geography of Otherness in Pharaonic Egypt 169 Gerald Moers 12 On Earth as in Heaven: The Apocalyptic Vision of World Geography from Urzeit to Endzeit according to the Book of Jubilees 182 James M. Scott 13 'I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea': Geography and Difference in the Early Greek World 197 Susan Guettel Cole 14 Continents, Climates, and Cultures: Greek Theories of Global Structure 215 James Romm 15 The Geographical Narrative of Strabo of Amasia 236 Daniela Dueck 16 The Roman Worldview: Beyond Recovery? 252 Richard J. A. Talbert 17 The Medieval Islamic Worldview: Arabic Geography in Its Historical Context 273 Adam J. Silverstein 18 The Book of Curiosities: An Eleventh-Century Egyptian View of the Lands of the Infidels 291 Emilie Savage-Smith 19 Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Concerns 311 Natalia Lozovsky 20 Europeans Plot the Wider World, 1500--1750 330 David Buisseret Index 344
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Pub Date : 2015-12-21DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v2i0.25755
Steven Rendell, Christoph Riedweg, P. Lautner
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Pub Date : 2015-12-21DOI: 10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V11I0.26058
P. Leemans, Pietro Rossi
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Pub Date : 2015-12-21DOI: 10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V3I0.25763
G. Lloyd, Philippa Lang
1. Understanding Ancient Societies 2. Science in Ancient Civilizations? 3. Carving out Territories 4. A Common Logic 5. Searching for Truth 6. The Questionability of Belief 7. Styles of Inquiry and the Question of a Common Ontology 8. The Use and Abuse of Classification 9. For Example and Against 10. Universities: their Histories and Responsibilities 11. Human Nature and Human Rights 12. A Critique of Democracy Conclusion Glossary of Chinese and Greek Terms
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Pub Date : 2015-12-21DOI: 10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V3I0.25789
P. Eijk, T. Tieleman
This collection of papers studies the Hippocratic writings in their relationship to the intellectual, social, cultural and literary context in which they were written. 'Context' includes not only the Greek world, but also the medical thought and practice of other civilisations in the Mediterranean, such as Babylonian and Egyptian medicine. A further point of interest are the relations between the Hippocratic writings and 'non-Hippocratic' medical authors of the fifth and fourth century BCE, such as "Diocles of Carystus", "Praxagoras of Cos", as well as Plato, Aristotle and Theophrastus. The collection further includes studies of some of the less well-known works in the "Hippocratic Corpus", such as "Internal Affections", "On the Eye", and "Prorrheticon". And finally, a number of papers are devoted to the impact and reception of Hippocratic thought in later antiquity and the early modern period.
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