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Everyday Magic in Early Modern Europe edited by Kathryn A. Edwards

2023-05-18 22:21:28 | Article | Contributor(s): Darren Oldridge

Historians have long known that the efforts of religious reformers, both Catholic and Protestant, to challenge the magical beliefs of ordinary people in early modern Europe met with limited success, and that a rich stratum of unorthodox supernatural beliefs survived well into the 18th century....

Dragos Calma, Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes

2023-05-18 22:20:58 | Article | Contributor(s): Sokratis-Athanasios Kiosoglou

There is no doubt that in recent decades there has been an astonishing development in the study of Proclus’ (ad 412–485) philosophy and its reception in the Arabic, Hebrew, and Byzantine worlds. Conferences, monographs, and collective volumes [e.g., d’Hoine and Martijn 2016] dedicated to the...

Clementina Caputo and Julia Lougovaya, Using Ostraca in the Ancient World

2023-05-18 22:20:29 | Article | Contributor(s): Roger S. Bagnall

This remarkable volume provides the richest introduction ever offered to one of the most widespread but understudied writing technologies of the ancient world. Like many such categories, ostraca are a somewhat fuzzy set, and the term “ostracon” is often used imprecisely. Properly speaking, the...

Christián Carman and Rodolfo P. Buzón, Aristarco de Samos

2023-05-18 22:19:58 | Article | Contributor(s): Maria Rosa Massa-Esteve

This work by Aristarchus belongs to ancient science, which may be considered in three fields of development: ∘ mathematics, especially that focused on the geometry in Euclid’s Elements or Archimedes’ works; ∘ astronomy, understood as a science that studies all the objects observed in the sky...

C. J. Crisostomo, E. A. Escobar, T. Tanaka, and N. Veldhuis, “The Scaffolding of Our Thoughts”

2023-05-18 22:19:26 | Article | Contributor(s): Lorenzo Verderame

The volume under review collects 20 essays dedicated by different scholars to Francesca Rochberg, a professor of Assyriology and renowned expert on ancient Mesopotamian celestial divination. Most of the essays deal with Assyriology and discuss cuneiform sources. Reviewed by: Lorenzo...

Before Copernicus and Copernicus

2023-05-18 22:18:53 | Article | Contributor(s): Matjaž Vesel

A discussion of Before Copernicus: The Cultures and Contexts of Scientific Learning in the Fifteenth Century edited by Rivka Feldhay and F. Jamil Ragep. Published Online (2021-04-30)Copyright © 2021 by Matjaž Vesel Article PDF Link:...

Babylonian House Numbers and Squares of Zodiacal Signs: The Origin of the Quadruplicities, Part I

2023-05-18 22:18:28 | Article | Contributor(s): Lis Brack-Bernsen

BM 47762 is the rest of a circular tablet, which was divided into 12 sectors by lines from the center to the rim. Each sector was labelled by a zodiacal sign. Our tablet consists in part of the sectors IX, X, XI, and XII, which are concerned with the zodiacal signs of Sagittarius (month IX),...

Astronomical Shoptalk in Paris, ca 1246: An Edition and Translation of John of London’s Letter to R. de Guedingue

2023-05-18 22:18:02 | Article | Contributor(s): C. Philipp E Nothaft

A unique source on the practical aspects of the scientia astrorum (astronomy and astrology) in medieval Europe has come down to us in the shape of a letter written shortly after 1246 by John of London, an astronomer based in Paris. John used the letter to answer eight questions on technical...

Aratus’ Phaenomena beyond Its Sources

2023-05-18 22:17:18 | Article | Contributor(s): Stamatina Mastorakou

In this article, I compare the astronomical poem by Aratus called Phaenomena (third century bc) with the citations of a work of the same name by Eudoxus that are found in Hipparchus’ only extant work, In Arati et Eudoxi phaenomena (second century bc). I argue that, contrary to what most scholars...

Alessandro Palazzo and Anna Rodolfi, Prophecy and Prophets in the Middle Ages

2023-05-18 22:14:59 | Article | Contributor(s): Laura Ackerman Smoller

Scholars of medieval and early modern science have long been indebted to the editors of Micrologus and the Micrologus Library for a series of volumes that broaden the boundaries of the field and deepen our understanding of its contexts. This latest contribution to the Micrologus Library offers a...

Aileen R. Das, Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato’s Timaeus

2023-05-18 22:14:16 | Article | Contributor(s): Nahyan Fancy

The title of Aileen Das’ first monograph, Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato’s Timaeus, may mislead readers into thinking that she is solely interested in contributing to the growing literature on reception studies of this important Platonic dialogue. As valuable as Das’ contributions to...

We Development Draft

2023-05-16 21:54:27 | Article | Contributor(s): Archie To | https://doi.org/10.25547/73MJ-J014

Web development, draft

Scribes of the Cairo Geniza

2023-05-11 22:21:07 | Article | Contributor(s): Gary A Rendsburg

This is a review of Scribes of the Cairo Geniza.

Early Modern Manuscripts Online

2023-05-11 22:20:35 | Article | Contributor(s): Whitney Sperrazza

This is a review of Early Modern Manuscripts Online.

Digital Cavendish: A Scholarly Collaborative.

2023-05-11 22:19:54 | Article | Contributor(s): Megan Peiser

This is a review of Digital Cavendish: A Scholarly Collaborative.