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Monthly Archives: September 2017

Suzanne Moon, review of Zapotec Science, by Roberto Gonzalez, Technology and Culture 43, no. 3 (July 2002): 623-625. Annotations A commentary on terminological considerations surrounding science, traditional environmental knowledge, indigenous science, etc. Appropriate material for the taxonomic debate about Western and non-Western epistemology. Notes 624 – “Should these practices be called ‘science’? Gonzalez explains that he appropriates […]
30 September, 2017
Mario Biagioli – Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism
Mario Biagioli, Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism (Chicago, U. of Chgo. Press, 1993). Response [At the onset: I have [...]
29 September, 2017
Monica Azzolini – The Duke and the Stars
Monica Azzolini, The Duke and the Stars: Astrology and Politics in Renaissance Milan (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2013). Response It should be noted at the [...]
28 September, 2017
Robert S. Westman – “The Copernican Question Revisited: A Reply to Noel Swerdlow and John Heilbron”
Robert S. Westman, “The Copernican Question Revisited: A Reply to Noel Swerdlow and John Heilbron,” Perspectives on Science 21, no. 1 (2013). Response It [...]
26 September, 2017
Peter Barker – “Constructing Copernicus”
Peter Barker, “Constructing Copernicus,” Perspectives on Science 10, no. 2 (Summer 2002). Notes 208 – “This paper . . . examines Kepler’s [...]
25 September, 2017
Rienk Vermij – Johannes Phocylides Holwarda and the Interpretation of New Stars in the Dutch Republic
Rienk Vermij, “Johannes Phocylides Holwarda and the Interpretation of New Stars in the Dutch Republic,” in Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology, [...]
21 September, 2017
John Murdoch – The Analytical Character of Late Medieval Learning
John E. Murdoch, “The Analytic Character of Late Medieval Learning: Natural Philosophy without Nature,” in Approaches to Nature in the Middle Ages, ed. [...]
18 September, 2017
Rienk Vermij – “A Science of Signs:
Rienk Vermij, “A Science of Signs: Aristotelian Meteorology in Reformation Germany,” Early Science and Medicine 15, no. 6 (2010). Response In “A Science of [...]
15 September, 2017
C. Scott Dixon – Popular Astrology and Lutheran Propaganda in Reformation Germany
C. Scott Dixon, “Popular Astrology and Lutheran Propaganda in Reformation Germany,” History 84, no. 275 (July 1999). Response In his “Popular Astrology and [...]
15 September, 2017
Lynn Thorndike – Latin Treatises on Comets Between 1238 and 1368 A.D. – Albertus Magnus
Lynn Thorndike, Latin Treatises on Comets Between 1238 and 1368 A.D. (Chicago: Chgo UP, 1950). Response Here in the third tractatus of his first book of [...]
8 September, 2017
G.E.R. Lloyd – “Saving the Appearances”
G.E.R. Lloyd, “Saving the Appearances, Classical Quarterly, n.s. 28 (1978): 202-222. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/638722 Response In this [...]
8 September, 2017
Richard Sorabji – “The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle”
Richard Sorabji, “The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle,” in Aristotle Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and Their Influence, ed. Richard [...]
8 September, 2017
Richard Sorabji – “Aristotle on Colour, Light, and Imperceptibles”
Richard Sorabji, “Aristotle on Colour, Light, and Imperceptibles,” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London [...]
8 September, 2017







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