{"title":"Jonathan Barnes et al., Eleatica 2008. Zenone e l’infinito","authors":"Livio Rossetti, Massimo Pulpito, Walter Leszl","doi":"10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V10I0.26033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V10I0.26033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30096,"journal":{"name":"Aestimatio Critical Reviews in the History of Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69506113","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}
Anthony R. Constable (book editor), William Facey (book editor), J. L. Berggren (review author)
{"title":"The Principles of Arab Navigation","authors":"Anthony R. Constable (book editor), William Facey (book editor), J. L. Berggren (review author)","doi":"10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V11I0.26064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V11I0.26064","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout History, the Indian Ocean has been a zone of interaction between far-flung civilizations served by ports, and connected with the Mediterranean by the Gulf and Red Sea. The shows that were the vehicles of commercial and cultural exchange over this vast expanse of ocean ranged from small craft rarely venturing out of sight of land, to cargo vessels carrying navigators skilled in the art of deep sea sailing. These Arab, Persian and Indian seamen used the seasonal monsoon winds, and applied navigational techniques that relied on their ability to read the stars in the night sky - skills that had developed down the generations from time immemorial. This stellar navigation, based on measuring the altitude of the Pole Star to establish latitude and on the risings and settings of certain stars to find direction, grew into a complex art, belying the simplicity of the instruments used. Bringing together six scholars specializing in the maritime history and culture of the Arabs (Anthony R. Constable, William Facey, Yacoub Al-Hijji, Paul Lunde, Hassan Salih Shihab and Eric Staples), this book makes a new and vital contribution to the study of a nautical culture that has hitherto not received its due share of attention, and which is vital to an understanding of Indian Ocean history. Drawing on source material such as the guides by the renowned southern Arabian navigators Ahmad ibn Majid and Sulayman al-Mahri in the 15th and 16th centuries AD, as well as surviving logbooks of how captains in the early 20th, the volume covers the principal ideas, techniques, instruments and calculations used, deploying astronomy, geometry and mathematics to explain their methods. It includes an account of a practical attempt to apply these methods in 2010, on an adventurous voyage from Muscat to Singapore in a reconstructed early medieval dhow, and concludes with an analysis of sailing conditions in the Red Sea..","PeriodicalId":30096,"journal":{"name":"Aestimatio Critical Reviews in the History of Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69506282","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}
{"title":"Theophrastus on Weather Signs","authors":"D. Sider, C. W. Brunschön, H. Hine","doi":"10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V4I0.25825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V4I0.25825","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30096,"journal":{"name":"Aestimatio Critical Reviews in the History of Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69506426","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}
{"title":"Thomas Bradwardine, Traité des rapports entre les rapidités dans les mouvements suivi de Nicole Oresme, Sur les rapports de rapports . Introduction, traduction, et commentaire","authors":"Sabine Rommevaux, E. D. Sylla","doi":"10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V8I0.25940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V8I0.25940","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30096,"journal":{"name":"Aestimatio Critical Reviews in the History of Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69506701","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}
{"title":"Apollonius de Perge, La section des droites selon des rapports . Commentaire historique et mathématique, édition et traduction du texte arabe","authors":"R. Rashed, H. Bellosta, Clemency Montelle","doi":"10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V8I0.25970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V8I0.25970","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30096,"journal":{"name":"Aestimatio Critical Reviews in the History of Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69506786","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}
{"title":"Alessandro d'Afrodisia (Tito Aurelio Alessandro), Il Destino . Trattato sul destino e su ciò che dipende da noi. Dedicato agli imperatori","authors":"Carlo Natali, Elisa Tetamo, S. Magrin","doi":"10.33137/aestimatio.v8i0.25972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/aestimatio.v8i0.25972","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30096,"journal":{"name":"Aestimatio Critical Reviews in the History of Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69506794","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}
{"title":"La via delle acque (1500-1700). Appropriazione delle arti e trasformazione delle matematiche","authors":"C. Maffioli, P. Palmieri","doi":"10.33137/aestimatio.v8i0.25977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/aestimatio.v8i0.25977","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30096,"journal":{"name":"Aestimatio Critical Reviews in the History of Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69506831","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}
{"title":"The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times. Foreword by Jan Assman. Translated by David Lorton","authors":"F. Ebeling, K. V. Bladel","doi":"10.5860/choice.45-2549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.45-2549","url":null,"abstract":"After a foreword by Jan Assmann, the book is organized by chapters along an increasingly specific chronological framework: early origins and ancient Hermetica, followed by chapters on the Hermetica in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in the 17th century, in the 18th and 19th centuries, and in the 20th century. The treatment is most convincing, and contributes the most, in the half of the book comprising the third, fourth, and fifth chapters: Hermeticism from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment is clearly the author’s strength.","PeriodicalId":30096,"journal":{"name":"Aestimatio Critical Reviews in the History of Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71118719","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}
{"title":"Routledge History of Philosophy: II. From Aristotle to Augustine","authors":"D. Furley, T. Tieleman","doi":"10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V1I0.25729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/AESTIMATIO.V1I0.25729","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30096,"journal":{"name":"Aestimatio Critical Reviews in the History of Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69506035","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}
{"title":"In memoriam David Pingree","authors":"K. Plofker, B. R. Goldstein","doi":"10.33137/aestimatio.v2i0.25744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33137/aestimatio.v2i0.25744","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30096,"journal":{"name":"Aestimatio Critical Reviews in the History of Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69506178","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}