Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface IX
4. Maimonides: Medical Aphorisms edited by G. Bos 1
5. The Cults of Uruk and Babylon by M. J. H. Linssen 7
6. Architecture and Mathematics in Ancient Egypt by C. Rossi 11
7. Hesiod’s Cosmos by J.S.Clay 16
8. The Claude Glass by A. Maillet 24
9. The Command of Light by G. K. Sweetnam 33
10. Archimedes by S. Stein 39
11. The Female in Aristotle’s Biology by R. Mayhew 42
12. Ancient Mathematics by S.Cuomo 49
13. Picturing Machines 1400--1700 edited by W. Lefèvre 58
14. Methods and Styles in the Development of Chemisty by J.S.Fruton 64
15. Sherlock Holmes in Babylon edited by M. Anderson, V. Katz, and R. Wilson 67
16. In memoriam: David Edwin Pingree (2 Jan 1933 -- 11 Nov 2005) 70
17. Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities edited by R. S. Boustan and A.Y. Reed 72
18. Modelli idrostatici del moto da Aristotele a Galileo by M. Ugaglia 83
19. Affinity, That Elusive Dream by M. G. Kim 88
20. A Critical History of Early Rome by G. Forsythe 94
21. Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions by G. Freudenthal 104
22. Music and the Muses edited by P. Murray and P. Wilson 108
23. Simplicius: On Aristotle on the Heavens 1.5--9 translated by R. J. Hankinson 119
24. The Midwife of Platonism by D. Sedley 127
25. Vitruvius by I. K. McEwen 135
26. Lucretius on Creation and Evolution by G. Campbell 141
27. Pythagoras by C. Riedweg 162
28. Archimedes and the Angel: Phantom Paths from Problems to Equations 168
29. Math through the Ages by W.P. Berlinghoff and F. Q. Gouvêa 226
30. Frontinus by R. H. Rodgers 228
31. In memoriam:Erica Reiner (1924--2005) 236
32. The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180--395 by D. S.Potter 238
33. Books Received 2005 244