Open Access Journal: Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science

[First posted in AWOL 15 October 2009. Most recently updated 15 November 2025]

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.

Publisher
Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science

Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science (in progress)

Vol. 5 (2024)

Foreword / Avant propos

• From the Editors

  Alan C. Bowen, Francesca Rochberg

  vii–viii

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• From the Editors (Français)

  Alan C. Bowen, Francesca Rochberg

  ix-x

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Studies / Études

• Tables of Declination from Ptolemy to Regiomontanus

  Bernard R. Goldstein, José Chabás†

  1-37

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Reviews / Comptes rendus

• Review of: Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia edited by Bill M. Mak and Eric Huntington

  Dagmar Schäfer

  1-7

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• Review of: Aristotle’s Theology: The Primary Texts Translated with Introduction and Notes by C. D. C. Reeve

  Mor Segev

  1-6

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• Review of: Time for the Ancients: Measurement, Theory, Experience by Peter N. Singer

  Peter Van Nuffelen

  1-3

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• Review of: The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies: Libraries, Books, and Individual Recipes edited by C. A. Faraone and S. T. Tovar

  Evan A. Andersson

  1-8

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Open Access Journal: Suhayl

[First posted in AWOL 23 February 2011. Updated 13 November 2023]

 

Suhayl. International Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation
ISSN 1576-9372
ISSN electrònic 2013-620X

Suhayl  (ISSN 1576-9372 / ISSN electrònic 2013-620X) és una revista anual  publicada pel Grup Millàs Vallicrosa d'Història de la Ciència Àrab de la  Universitat de Barcelona que s'edita en llengua anglesa i àrab. Des de  2009 es publica en col·laboració amb la Commision on History of Science  and Technology in Islamic Societies (IUPHS-DHS).

"Suhayl" (Canop) és una estrella usada sovint per la tradició islàmica  com a indicador de la qibla, la direcció de La Meca, ja que l'axis  principal de la Ka'ba està orientat cap el punt de la seva sortida.

2022: Vol.: 19

Articles

Credits & summary

Could Medieval Islamic Oculists Remove Cataracts? The views of a fourteenth-century Egyptian sceptic

Emilie Savage-Smith

7-41

A Panoramic View of Hebrew Astronomical Tables in the Middle Ages

Bernard R. Goldstein

43-88

A treatise on the use of magic squares

Jacques Sesiano

89-150

Selective Appropriation: Jewish Scholars and Lunar Crescent Visibility Prediction in the Ottoman Empire

Robert G. Morrison

151-174

Practical Astronomy in Fourteenth-Century Provence: Immanuel ben Jacob Bonfils of Tarascon and the Construction of Astrolabes (Study, Critical Edition, and Translation)

Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Richard L. Kremer

175-285

Reviews

Julio Samsó, On both Sides of the Strait of Gibraltar. Studies in the History of Medieval Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghrib

Josep Casulleras

289-310

Pouyan Rezvani, Two Treatises on the Astrolabe by Abū Rayḥān Bīrūnī (d.ca. 1050). Editions, Translations and Commentary

Roser Puig

311-313

Roshdi Rashed, Lʼhydrostatique de Ménélaüs: Introduction, édition et traduction

Cristian Tolsa

314-316

Eric Ormsby, Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. On Life, Death, and Languages. An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles

Miquel Forcada

317-318

Arxius

 

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