Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science
ISSN: 1549–4497 (online)
ISSN: 1549–4470 (print)
Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science was launched in 2004 by the Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science. It was redesigned in 2020 as Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science. It is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal, which publishes the latest research in the history of what was called science from antiquity up to the early modern period, as well as critical, timely assessments of related books.
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Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science
Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science (Special Issue)
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2022)
From the Editors
01 Dec 2023
This issue of Aestimatio is the first to be focused on a given theme and organized by a guest editor. We are very pleased to introduce in this issue soundings in the ancient and medieval conceptions of emotions, a domain of inquiry that has in recent years captured the attention of a wide community of scholars working in psychology, psychiatry, the social sciences, and neuroscience. That it has made inroads into the history of science as well is evident in a recent issue of Osiris, a publication of the History of Science Society. The broad contention underlying these studies is that emotions or affective states are a species of cognition resulting from the interaction of the mind, the body, and their physical and cultural environments. Such studies thus promise to show historians of science specific ways in which the world as perceived and known in ancient and medieval times is different from the world as it is perceived and known today. We are grateful to Douglas Cairns of the University of Edinburgh for organizing and introducing these studies of the emotions in ancient and medieval societies and warmly thank Chiara Ferella, Judit Garzón Rodríguez, Sandra Hofert, Ulrike Steinert, and Giovanna Colombetti for their contributions.
Alan C. Bowen and Francesca RochbergCopyright © 2022 by the authors, except where stated otherwise.
Aestimatio (new series) is a peer-reviewed journal. It is owned and published by the Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science (ircps.org).Aestimatio ns 3.2 (2022)
ISSN 1549–4497 (online)
ISSN 1549–4470 (print)
Published Online 31 Dec 2023
Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2022)From the Editors
31 Aug 2023
Since the inception of Aestimatio, we, the editors, have relied on email to interact with all our contributors. This mode of interaction and its attendant record keeping made it possible for the journal to exist. Yet, with the passage of time, it has proven burdensome. And so we have been casting about for new ways to make work on the journal easier for its editors and its contributors. Fortunately, recent developments have shown us a way to improve our operation. As it turns out, in establishing a presence on the library’s servers at the University of Toronto (https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/aestimatio) in order to distribute our issues through Érudit (https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/aestimatio/), we made use of the Open Journal System (OJS). This system has a well-tested module for submitting and tracking contributions, which we now propose to install on the UT site. The installation itself is, we understand, straightforward and will be tailored to our specific needs. Once the module has been installed and tested in the early fall, we will phase it in for all new contributions. We are confident that the module will simplify our operation and, at the same time, make it more convenient for contributors to follow their articles and reviews as they progress from submission to publication. We will announce the installation of the module when it is completed and supply the appropriate hyperlinks to be used by all new contributors.
Alan C. Bowen, Francesca Rochberg, and Stamatina Mastorakou
Copyright © 2022 by the authors, except where stated otherwise.
Aestimatio (new series) is a peer-reviewed journal. It is owned and published by the Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science (ircps.org).Aestimatio ns 3.1 (2022)
ISSN 1549–4497 (online)
ISSN 1549–4470 (print)
Published Online 30 Sep 2023
Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021)From the Editors
In addition to some very fine reviews, this issue includes important articles on the medieval European scientia astrorum, a Babylonian tablet that may show the origins of a key concept in Greek and later astrology, and the visualization of the heavens in the numerous manuscripts of the Book of the Images of the Stars by Umar al-Sufi.Issues currently in preparation will continue to present work on diverse topics that include Bianchini’s planetary tables, the question of bloodletting in Babylonia, and Cicero’s Dream of Scipio. But they will also appear as thematic collections devoted, for example, to ancient Greek and present-day Maori conceptions of the celestial sphere and how these conceptions bear on agriculture, navigation, and religion; to ancient and medieval psychological theories of the emotions; and to magical diagrams found in various contexts of the late medieval West.
Thus, we encourage our readers to keep Aestimatio in mind as an outlet for their work in the history of science. Individual articles should be sent to Alan (bowen@IRCPS.org). Those interested in preparing a thematic issue should begin the conversation by contacting Chessie (rochberg@berkeley.edu). As always, correspondence concerning books and their review should be addressed to Tina (smastorakou@mpiwgberlin.mpg.de).
Alan C. Bowen
Francesca Rochberg
Stamatina MastorakouAestimatio (new series) is a peerreviewed journal. It is owned and published by the Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science (ircps.org). As with the old series, all issues and volumes of Aestimatio new series will be freely accessible online and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial No-Derivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND).
To receive notices of items just published in Aestimatio, readers may subscribe gratis to the IRCPS Bulletin at ircps.org. Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science was composed using ConTEXt and the typefaces STIX Two Text, TeX Gyre Termes Math, IFAOGrec Unicode, Estrangelo Edessa, and StarFont Serif at the Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science. Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science is distributed by EBSCO and, starting in 2022, by Érudit with the Coalition Publica through its platform Érudit.org (https://www.erudit.org/).
The IRCPS does not assess contributors to Aestimatio any fees for publication. Contributions submitted to Aestimatio for publication will be held in confidence, which will end only if and when the contribution is published.
ISSN 1549–4497 (online)
ISSN 1549–4470 (print, old series only)
Published online 31 Jul 2022
Copyright © 2022 by the authors, except where stated otherwise.
Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021)From the Editors
We, the editors of Aestimatio, welcome articles concerning texts and ideas in the history of science that focus on the Old World, ranging from Eurasia to Africa before the modern era, where scientific activity has left its traces by producing bodies and systems of knowledge that either counted as science or bore some significant relation to what counted as science at the time. Our specifying the focus of Aestimatio in this way does not involve our taking for granted any particular view of the way or ways in which science is defined or practiced in history. For us, science is not to be characterized solely as a body of knowledge or as a function of social networks and communities, but instead as the product of an engagement between communities and the worlds that they seek to describe or understand. This conception of premodern science in the Old World is, we maintain, the best rubric for the great number of ways in which its history may be studied. In addition to reviews of noteworthy books, this issue of Aestimatio includes some very fine studies and discussions that will, we trust, interest our readers. Potential contributors should bear in mind that we also seek to publish sources, that is, editions and translations of texts falling within the journal’s remit.
Editors:
Alan C. Bowen,
Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science
E-Mail: bowen@IRCPS.orgFrancesca Rochberg,
University of California Berkeley
E-Mail: rochberg@berkeley.edu
Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science
Vol. 1 (2020)From the Editors
15 Dec 2020
The Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science (IRCPS) is pleased to offer this inaugural volume, which marks a new beginning for Aestimatio now revised to become Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science. This new Aestimatio will focus, as before, on the history of science from antiquity up to the modern period. This chronological span, however, is to be complemented by an extended geo-cultural one that takes into account cultures in Eurasia and Africa, recognizing that the spread of the traditions of knowledge and of ideas is a unifying characteristic of the chronological and geo-cultural scope of science in the Old World before the modern era. In Aestimatio, we take science broadly to be the goals, methods, knowledge, and practices in what is presented as science in the historical sources. Accordingly, this new series aims to make fundamental texts and ideas in the history of science accessible to readers today through the publication of original research. It will also include assessments of books recently published that allow reviewers to engage critically the methods and results of current research. On occasion, there will be guest-edited thematic issues and supplementary volumes. We are most grateful to William R. Bowen (University of Toronto), Luis Meneses of ETCL (University of Victoria), and Megan O’Connor (IRCPS) for their invaluable help in making this publication possible. We also thank the members of the journal’s editorial board for joining us in this new venture. Their support is deeply appreciated.
Editors:
Alan C. Bowen,
Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science
E-Mail: bowen@IRCPS.orgFrancesca Rochberg,
University of California Berkeley
E-Mail: rochberg@berkeley.edu
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