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55On Professor Westman's Reply to Copernicus and Astrology, with an Appendix of Translations of Additional Primary SourcesPerspectives on Science 21 (3): 384-385. 2013.Professor Westman’s reply need be considered only briefly. When I received for review The Copernican Question, Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order, with its superlative commendations, I believed I had in my hands a book of surpassing erudition, the culmination of more than forty years of study by one of the world’s greatest experts on Copernicus and the astronomy and astrology of the Renaissance and early modern period. Imagine my surprise as I read this vast tome and discovered tha…Read more
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53Copernicus and Astrology, with an Appendix1of Translations of Primary SourcesPerspectives on Science 20 (3): 353-378. 2012.
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28Greek Chronography in Roman Epic: The Calendrical Date of the Fall of Troy in the AeneidClassical Quarterly 36 (01): 212-. 1986.The last chapter of Politian's first Miscellanea dealt with the amica silentia lunae through which the Greeks sailed back to Troy . He argued that the phrase should not be taken literally, as a statement that Troy fell at the new moon, but in an extended sense, as a poetic indication that the moon had not yet risen when the Greeks set sail. This reading had one merit: it explained how Virgil's moon could be silent while the Greeks were en route but shine during the battle for the city . Yet Poli…Read more
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31Technical Chronology and Astrological History in Varro, Censorinus and OthersClassical Quarterly 35 (02): 454-. 1985.Technical chronology establishes the structure of calendars and the dates of events; it is, as it were, the foundation of history, particularly ancient history. The chronologer must know enough philology to interpret texts and enough astronomy to compute the dates of celestial phenomena, above all eclipses, which alone provide absolute dates. Joseph Scaliger, so we are told, was the first to master and apply this range of technical skills: Of the mathematical principles on which the calculation …Read more
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114Astronomical chronology and prophecy: Jean-Dominique Cassini's discovery of josephus's great lunisolar period of the patriarchsJournal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 53 (1): 1-13. 1990.
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38Calendar dates and ominous days in ancient historiographyJournal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 51 (1): 14-42. 1988.
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16Narratio prima by Georg Joachim Rheticus; Henri Hugonnard-Roche; Jean-Pierre Verdet; Michel-Pierre Lerner; Alain Segonds (review)Isis 75 736-737. 1984.
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6Scientific Writings and Astronomical Tables in Cracow: A Census of Manuscript Sources by Grazyna Rosinska (review)Isis 76 231-231. 1985.
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3Galileo's Planet: Observing Jupiter before Photography by Thomas A. Hockey (review)Isis 92 580-581. 2001.
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15Montucla's Legacy: The History of the Exact SciencesJournal of the History of Ideas 54 (2): 299-328. 1993.
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