Index Locorum

Chapters in this book

1. Acknowledgements
2. Contents VII
3. List of Figures and Tables IX
4. Prologue: of Friendship and Fishponds 1
5. Introduction 5
6. Part I: Historiography, Disciplinary Categories, and Anachronism
7. Greco-Roman Histories of Astronomy, Their Genres, and Their Afterlives 15
8. When was Cosmology? The Curious History of a Disciplinary Category 33
9. Surmise or Certainty: Women in Science in Antiquity 51
10. Deep Reading of Kepler’s New Astronomy: An Exercise in Computational History of Science 65
11. Part II: Scientific Writing: Genres, Authority, Authorship, and Audiences
12. Narrative Elements in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals 83
13. Style and Intended Readership of Theophrastus’ On Fire (De igne) 95
14. Strategies of Moralising in the Pseudo-Vergilian Aetna 115
15. Leonides of Alexandria’s Isopsephic Epigrams: An Astronomical Art? 131
16. Faithful Marriages and Wild Unions: Palladius’ On Grafting 153
17. Ancient Authority in Arabic-Islamic Scientific Writing and Practice 169
18. “A Cabinet of Many Rare Secrets”: The Uses and Abuses of Aristotle’s Masterpiece 191
19. Part III: Counting and Measuring: Tools, Diagrams, and Replicas
20. The Various Uses of Numbers and Mathematics in Ancient Egypt 219
21. Greek Sexagesimals and Zeros 231
22. The Diagrams and Replicas of Richard of Wallingford’s Clock 253
23. Measuring Magnetism: Retrospective on Theories and Instruments from Lucretius to Blackett and Bullard 279
24. Ancients and Moderns in Tycho Brahe’s Astronomy 295
25. Bibliography
26. Index
27. Index Locorum