Pub Date : 2015-12-21DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v10i0.26071
J. Lennox
{"title":"In memoriam Allan Gotthelf (30 December 1942–30 August 2013)","authors":"J. Lennox","doi":"10.33137/aestimatio.v10i0.26071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/aestimatio.v10i0.26071","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30096,"journal":{"name":"Aestimatio Critical Reviews in the History of Science","volume":"10 1","pages":"355-365"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69506216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-12-21DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v9i0.25986
Aaron Poochigian, D. M. Possanza
{"title":"Aratus: Phaenomena , Translated with an Introduction and Notes","authors":"Aaron Poochigian, D. M. Possanza","doi":"10.33137/aestimatio.v9i0.25986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/aestimatio.v9i0.25986","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30096,"journal":{"name":"Aestimatio Critical Reviews in the History of Science","volume":"9 1","pages":"66-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69506392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-12-21DOI: 10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V9I0.25995
M. Bonazzi, G. Boys-Stones
{"title":"Pierluigi Donini: Commentary and Tradition. Aristotelianism, Platonism, and Post-Hellenistic Philosophy","authors":"M. Bonazzi, G. Boys-Stones","doi":"10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V9I0.25995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V9I0.25995","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30096,"journal":{"name":"Aestimatio Critical Reviews in the History of Science","volume":"9 1","pages":"195-201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69506410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-12-21DOI: 10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V1I0.25714
C. Sirat, Sara Klein-braslavy, O. Weijers, P. Bobichon
Levi ben Gershom, known as Gersonides (1288–1344), was one of the most influential Medieval Jewish philosophers, and surely the most renowned among Hebrew-writing Jewish authors active in Provence during the Late Middle Ages. Possibly born in Orange (now in the French department of Vaucluse), he spent all his life near the area of the Rhone Delta; for a period he was at the papal court, then in Avignon, where he acted as an official astronomer and astrologer— and maybe as a physician too. Many of Gersonides’ minor works are of scientific interest since they concern the different fields of logic, arithmetic, geometry, musicology, and astronomy; however, his major and best-known writings, in approximate chronological order, are the following:
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Pub Date : 2015-12-21DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v10i0.26049
F. Petrucci, Joëlle Delattre Biencourt
Theon was a teacher of Platonism and an exegete of Plato’s text in the flourishing town of Smyrna during the first and second century of our age (fl. 125 A. D.). The Expositio is the only work of Theon that has been transmitted to us. It is an important witness in order to grasp not only the approach to mathematics (arithmetic, music and astronomy) typical of a middle-Platonist, but also (and above all) the exegetic aims of this project. Here the Expositio is translated ininto Italian for the first time, with a deep revisal of the Teubner text. The commentary shows that this work is a technical exegesis of the Timaeus, an attempt to argue that Plato has grasped in the most authentic way the true structure of the cosmos. On this basis, it is possible to see at work methods, intentions and strategies of a middle-Platonist engaged in the reargumentation of the Timaeus.
{"title":"Teone di Smirne. Expositio rerum mathematicarum ad legendum Platonem utilium. Introduzione, traduzione, commento","authors":"F. Petrucci, Joëlle Delattre Biencourt","doi":"10.33137/aestimatio.v10i0.26049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/aestimatio.v10i0.26049","url":null,"abstract":"Theon was a teacher of Platonism and an exegete of Plato’s text in the flourishing town of Smyrna during the first and second century of our age (fl. 125 A. D.). The Expositio is the only work of Theon that has been transmitted to us. It is an important witness in order to grasp not only the approach to mathematics (arithmetic, music and astronomy) typical of a middle-Platonist, but also (and above all) the exegetic aims of this project. \u0000Here the Expositio is translated ininto Italian for the first time, with a deep revisal of the Teubner text. The commentary shows that this work is a technical exegesis of the Timaeus, an attempt to argue that Plato has grasped in the most authentic way the true structure of the cosmos. On this basis, it is possible to see at work methods, intentions and strategies of a middle-Platonist engaged in the reargumentation of the Timaeus.","PeriodicalId":30096,"journal":{"name":"Aestimatio Critical Reviews in the History of Science","volume":"10 1","pages":"366-373"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69506208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-12-21DOI: 10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V2I0.25746
Monica Ugaglia, P. Palmieri
{"title":"Modelli idrostatici del moto da Aristotele a Galileo","authors":"Monica Ugaglia, P. Palmieri","doi":"10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V2I0.25746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V2I0.25746","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30096,"journal":{"name":"Aestimatio Critical Reviews in the History of Science","volume":"2 1","pages":"83-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69506235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-12-21DOI: 10.33137/aestimatio.v11i0.26070
S. Amigues, L. Totelin
{"title":"Théophraste. Les causes des phénomènes végétaux. Tome I. Livres I et II","authors":"S. Amigues, L. Totelin","doi":"10.33137/aestimatio.v11i0.26070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/aestimatio.v11i0.26070","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30096,"journal":{"name":"Aestimatio Critical Reviews in the History of Science","volume":"11 1","pages":"168-170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69506305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-12-21DOI: 10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V7I0.25923
R. Sharples, T. Tieleman
R. W. Sharples provides a new edition, with introduction and commentary in English, of the Greek text. The "Mantissa" is a collection of short discussions, transmitted as a supplement to the treatise "On the Soul" by the Aristotelian commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias (c.200 AD). The collection includes discussion of a range of topics, among them the nature of soul and intellect, theories of how seeing takes place, issues in ethics, and the nature of fate.
R. W. Sharples提供了一个新的版本,在英语的介绍和评论,希腊文本。“尾数”是一个集合的简短讨论,传送作为补充论文“论灵魂”由亚里士多德评论员亚历山大的阿佛洛狄西亚斯(c.200广告)。这本书讨论了一系列主题,其中包括灵魂和智力的本质、视觉如何发生的理论、伦理问题和命运的本质。
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Pub Date : 2015-12-21DOI: 10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V9I0.25982
Annette Imhausen, T. Pommerening, Markus Asper
Medicine, astronomy, dealing with numbers - even the cultures of the "pre-modern" world offer a rich spectrum of scientific texts. But how are they best translated? Is it sufficient to translate the sources into modern scientific language, and thereby, above all, to identify their deficits? Or would it be better to adopt the perspective of the sources themselves, strange as they are, only for them not to be properly understood by modern readers? Renowned representatives of various disciplines and traditions present a controversial and constructive discussion of these problems.
{"title":"Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece: Translating Ancient Scientific Texts","authors":"Annette Imhausen, T. Pommerening, Markus Asper","doi":"10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V9I0.25982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V9I0.25982","url":null,"abstract":"Medicine, astronomy, dealing with numbers - even the cultures of the \"pre-modern\" world offer a rich spectrum of scientific texts. But how are they best translated? Is it sufficient to translate the sources into modern scientific language, and thereby, above all, to identify their deficits? Or would it be better to adopt the perspective of the sources themselves, strange as they are, only for them not to be properly understood by modern readers? Renowned representatives of various disciplines and traditions present a controversial and constructive discussion of these problems.","PeriodicalId":30096,"journal":{"name":"Aestimatio Critical Reviews in the History of Science","volume":"9 1","pages":"9-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69506834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-12-21DOI: 10.31826/9781463234973-019
T. D. Jong
{"title":"In memoriam John Phillips Britton (6 December 1939-8 June 2010)","authors":"T. D. Jong","doi":"10.31826/9781463234973-019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463234973-019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30096,"journal":{"name":"Aestimatio Critical Reviews in the History of Science","volume":"7 1","pages":"250-257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69513326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}