Annals of Science, Volume 68, Issue 4 (2011)

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Between Orient and Occident: Transformation of Knowledge

Editorial

Editorial
Between Orient and Occident: Transformation of Knowledge
Benno van Dalen
Pages: 445-451
Published online: 11 Nov 2011
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Visual Aspects of the Transmission of Babylonian Astronomy and its Reception into Greek Astronomy
J. M. STEELE
Pages: 453-465
Published online: 26 May 2011
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‘Yavana’ and ‘Indian’: Transmission and Foreign Identity in the Exact Sciences
Kim Plofker
Pages: 467-476
Published online: 11 Nov 2011
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The Mathematical Sciences in Syriac: From Sergius of Resh-‘Aina and Severus Sebokht to Barhebraeus and Patriarch Ni‘matallah
Hidemi Takahashi
Pages: 477-491
Published online: 11 Nov 2011
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The Formation of the Arabic Pharmacology Between Tradition and Innovation
Peter E. Pormann
Pages: 493-515
Published online: 11 Nov 2011
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Non-transferable Knowledge: Arabic and Hebrew Onomancy into Latin
D. Juste
Pages: 517-529
Published online: 11 Nov 2011
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Sahl and the Tājika Yogas: Indian transformations of Arabic astrology
Martin Gansten & Ola Wikander
Pages: 531-546
Published online: 24 Mar 2011
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Essay Review

Review Article
A Case for Preserving the Diversity of Madness
Jennifer C. Sarrett & Howard I. Kushner
Pages: 547-554
Published online: 27 Oct 2010
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Book Review: Social Aspects of Science

Book Review
Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia
Jeff Loveland
Pages: 555-558
Published online: 11 Nov 2011
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Book Review: Biographies

Book Review
Einstein and Oppenheimer
Charles Thorpe
Pages: 558-561
Published online: 16 Sep 2010
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John Wallis. Una vita per un progetto
Niccolò Guicciardini
Pages: 561-563
Published online: 06 Jan 2011
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Book Review: The Enlightenment

Book Review
The Singular and the Making of Knowledge at the Royal Society of London in the Eighteenth Century
David Philip Miller
Pages: 563-565
Published online: 10 Jan 2011
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Book Review: Medicine and Health

Book Review
Contested Medicine: Cancer Research and the Military
Roger Cooter
Pages: 565-567
Published online: 06 Jan 2011
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Book Review: Natural History

Book Review
H.G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism
Christina Matta
Pages: 568-570
Published online: 06 Jan 2011
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Book Review: Physical Sciences

Book Review
Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
Lawrence Badash
Pages: 571-573
Published online: 06 Jan 2011
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Book Review: Scientific Revolution

Book Review
The Accademia del Cimento and its European Context
William R. Shea
Pages: 573-575
Published online: 06 Jan 2011
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Book Review: Life Sciences

Book Review
God or Gorilla: Images of Evolution in the Jazz Age
Matthew R. Goodrum
Pages: 575-577
Published online: 06 Jan 2011
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Book Review: Medieval Science

Book Review
Liber primus naturalium. Tractatus secundus de motu et de consimilibus
Charles Burnett
Pages: 577-578
Published online: 06 Jan 2011
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Meteorologica. Translatio Guillelmi de Morbeka
Charles Burnett
Pages: 579-580
Published online: 06 Jan 2011
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Book Review: Astronomy and Cosmology, Space and Time

Book Review
Cracking the Einstein Code: Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics
Robert J. Deltete
Pages: 581-583
Published online: 06 Jan 2011
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Miscellany

Online Cover
Page: ebi
Published online: 11 Nov 2011
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