Isis Current Bibliography 2010 - History of Science Society

22 112. Physics; physical sciences, general
Contents: N. P. HEESSEL, “Astrological Medicine
in Babylonia” [ref. 843]; V. NUTTON, “Greek Medical
Astrology and the Boundaries of Medicine”
[ref. 928]; H. M. CAREY, “Medieval Latin Astrology
and the Cycles of Life: William English
and English Medicine in Cambridge,Trinity College
MS O.5.26” [ref. 1133]; C. PENNUTO, “The
Debate on Critical Days in Renaissance Italy”
[ref. 1429]; Y. T. LANGERMANN, “The Astral
Connections of Critical Days: Some Late Antique
Sources Preserved in Hebrew and Arabic”; A.
AKASOY, “Arabic Physiognomy as a Link between
Astrology and Medicine” [ref. 634]; V. LO, “Heavenly
Bodies in Early China: Astro-Physiology
in Context” [ref. 719]; A. BEINORIUS, “Astral
Hermeneutics: Astrology and Medicine in India”
[ref. 780]; V. A. WALLACE, “A Convergence of
Medical and Astro-Sciences in Indian Tantric Buddhism:
A Case of the Kalacakratantra” [ref. 786];
R. YOELI-TLALIM, “Tibetan Medical Astrology”;
D. Gieseler GREENBAUM, “From Lilly to Steiner
and Jung: Temperament in Astrology and Psychology,
Seventeenth and Twentieth Centuries”
[ref. 426].
Reviews: [ref. R7]
285. CANTAMESSA, Leandro. Astrologia: Opere a
stampa, 1472–1900. (2 v.; xxx + 1105 pp.; ill.; bibl.)
Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 2007. ISBN: 9788822256706.
A bibliography of works on astrology.
Reviews: [ref. R140]
286. KASSELL, Lauren. “Introduction: Stars, Spirits,
Signs: Towards a History of Astrology 1100–1800.”
Stud. Hist. Phil. Biol. Biomed. Sci. 41 (2010): 67–69.
Contents: Charles BURNETT, “Hebrew and Latin
Astrology in the Twelfth Century: The Example
of the Location of Pain,” 70–75 [ref. 1132];
Laura Ackerman SMOLLER, “Teste Albumasare
cum Sibylla: Astrology and the Sibyls in Medieval
Europe,” 76–89 [ref. 1140]; Hilary M.
CAREY, “Judicial Astrology in Theory and Practice
in Later Medieval Europe,” 90–98 [ref. 1134];
Jean-Patrice BOUDET, “A ‘College of Astrology
and Medicine’? Charles V, Gervais Chrétien,
and the Scientific Manuscripts of Maître Gervais’s
College,” 99–108 [ref. 1129]; Robert RAL-
LEY, “Stars, Demons and the Body in Fifteenth-
Century England,” 109–116 [ref. 1138]; H. Darrel
RUTKIN, “Mysteries of Attraction: Giovanni Pico
Della Mirandola, Astrology and Desire,” 117–124
[ref. 1139]; Darin HAYTON, “Instruments and
Demonstrations in the Astrological Curriculum:
Evidence from the University of Vienna, 1500–
1530,” 125–134 [ref. 1427]; Monica AZZOLINI,
“The Political Uses of Astrology: Predicting the Illness
and Death of Princes, Kings and Popes in the
Italian Renaissance,” 135–145 [ref. 1424]; Claudia
BROSSEDER, “Astrology in Seventeenth-Century
Peru,” 146–157 [ref. 1685]; Simon SCHAFFER,
“The Astrological Roots of Mesmerism,” 158–168
[ref. 2041].
112. PHYSICS; PHYSICAL SCIENCES,
GENERAL WORKS
287. BAKER, David John. “An Ontological Study of
Quantum Fields and Their Symmetries.” Diss. Abstr.
Int. A 69/08 (2009).
Dissertation at Princeton University, 2008. Advisor:
Halvorson, Hans. Pub. no. AAT 3324282. 105
pp.
288. BIEGLBÖCK, Wolf. “Editorial.” Eur. Phys. J. H
35 (2010): 1–2.
First issue of a new journal devoted to historical
perspectives on physics, especially 20th-century
physics. Articles are written by physicists as well
as historians.
289. BLAY, Michel. “La vue et la lumière : Sur
quelques aspects de l’histoire de la lumière.” Rev.
Hist. Sci. 60 (2007): 119–132.
290. BRICMONT, J. “Determinism, Probability and
Physics.” In Liber Amicorum Jean Dhombres, edited
by RADELET-DE GRAVE (2008) [ref. 273], 71–85.
291. COOPERSMITH, Jennifer. Energy, the Subtle
Concept: The Discovery of Feynman’s Blocks from
Leibniz to Einstein. (xiv + 400 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN:
9780199546503.
On the emergence of the modern concept of energy
since the 17th century.
292. DARRIGOL, Olivier. “The Analogy between
Light and Sound in the History of Optics from the
Ancient Greeks to Isaac Newton. Part 2.” Centaurus
52 (2010): 206–257.
Continuation of Olivier DARRIGOL, “The Analogy
between Light and Sound in the History of Optics
from the Ancient Greeks to Isaac Newton. Part 1”
Centaurus 52 (2010): 117–155 [ref. 1691]
293. DEBS, Talal A., and Michael L. G. REDHEAD.
“Author’s response to book symposium: A New
Perspective on Objectivity and Conventionalism.”
Metascience 19 (2010): 24–27.
Essay review of Talal A. DEBS and Michael L. G.
REDHEAD, Objectivity, Invariance, and Convention
(2007).
294. DORATO, Mauro. “Part of a book symposium:
A New Perspective on Objectivity and Conventionalism.”
Metascience 19 (2010): 10–15.
Essay review of Talal A. DEBS and Michael L. G.
REDHEAD, Objectivity, Invariance, and Convention
(2007).
295. GROVE, Stanley F. “Quantum Theory and
Aquinas’s Doctrine on Matter.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A
69/12 (2009).
Dissertation at The Catholic University of America,
2008. Advisor: Wallace, William A. Pub. no. AA.
329 pp.