Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Acknowledgements
3. Contents VII
4. List of Figures and Tables IX
5. Prologue: of Friendship and Fishponds 1
6. Introduction 5
7. Part I: Historiography, Disciplinary Categories, and Anachronism
8. Greco-Roman Histories of Astronomy, Their Genres, and Their Afterlives 15
9. When was Cosmology? The Curious History of a Disciplinary Category 33
10. Surmise or Certainty: Women in Science in Antiquity 51
11. Deep Reading of Kepler’s New Astronomy: An Exercise in Computational History of Science 65
12. Part II: Scientific Writing: Genres, Authority, Authorship, and Audiences
13. Narrative Elements in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals 83
14. Style and Intended Readership of Theophrastus’ On Fire (De igne) 95
15. Strategies of Moralising in the Pseudo-Vergilian Aetna 115
16. Leonides of Alexandria’s Isopsephic Epigrams: An Astronomical Art? 131
17. Faithful Marriages and Wild Unions: Palladius’ On Grafting 153
18. Ancient Authority in Arabic-Islamic Scientific Writing and Practice 169
19. “A Cabinet of Many Rare Secrets”: The Uses and Abuses of Aristotle’s Masterpiece 191
20. Part III: Counting and Measuring: Tools, Diagrams, and Replicas
21. The Various Uses of Numbers and Mathematics in Ancient Egypt 219
22. Greek Sexagesimals and Zeros 231
23. The Diagrams and Replicas of Richard of Wallingford’s Clock 253
24. Measuring Magnetism: Retrospective on Theories and Instruments from Lucretius to Blackett and Bullard 279
25. Ancients and Moderns in Tycho Brahe’s Astronomy 295
26. List of Contributors 317
27. Bibliography
28. Index
29. Index Locorum