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5Ptolemy’s Scientific CosmologyIn Marius Stan & Christopher Smeenk (eds.), Theory, Evidence, Data: Themes from George E. Smith, Springer. pp. 327-348. 2023.The purpose of this essay is to show that there was one person, perhaps only one, who developed a rigorously scientific cosmology nearly two thousand years ago. Cosmology is the largest of all subjects, with a long history, and the cosmology considered here is the one that endured for the longest part, nearly three-quarters, of that history. By cosmology I mean a description of the universe as a whole and of the arrangement of its principal parts. But by scientific cosmology, I mean something mo…Read more
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9The Astronomical Tables of Levi ben Gerson (review)British Journal for the History of Science 9 (3): 324-325. 1976.
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18Astronomy The Astronomical Tables of Levi ben Gerson. By Bernard R. Goldstein. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, xlv . Archon Books: Hamden, Connecticut, 1974. Pp. 285. $15.00 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 9 (3): 324-325. 1976.
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15Technical Chronology and Astrological History in Varro, Censorinus and OthersClassical Quarterly 35 (2): 454-465. 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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19Greek Chronography in Roman Epic: The Calendrical Date of the Fall of Troy in the AeneidClassical Quarterly 36 (1): 212-218. 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 Politi…Read more
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18Theoricae novae planetarum Georgii Peurbachii dans l’histoire de l’astronomie: Essay Review of Michela Malpangotto, Sources, edition critique, avec traduction française, commentaire technique, diffussion du XVe au XVIIe Siècle. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2020. 751pp. 65.00 €. ISBN-10: 2271134587, ISBN-13: 978-2271134585 (review)Annals of Science 78 (3): 387-392. 2021.
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12Acronychal Risings in Babylonian Planetary TheoryArchive for History of Exact Sciences 54 (1): 49-65. 1999.
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20Tycho Brahe's Early Lunar Theory and the Lunar Eclipse of 31 January 1599Centaurus 46 (1): 1-40. 2004.
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20Ancient Astronomy and Celestial DivinationJournal of the American Oriental Society 121 (4): 687. 2001.
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10The Babylonian Theory of the PlanetsJournal of the American Oriental Society 119 (4): 695. 1999.
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18Thomas Hockey . The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. 2 volumes. xlv + 1,341 pp., illus., bibl., indexes. New York: Springer, 2007. $499 (review)Isis 101 (1): 197-198. 2010.
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5Galileo's Planet: Observing Jupiter before Photography. Thomas A. HockeyIsis 92 (3): 580-581. 2001.
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12Feature ReviewsThe Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology. John NorthIsis 88 (2): 316-317. 1997.
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13Annals of Scientific Publishing: Johannes Petreius's Letter to RheticusIsis 83 (2): 270-274. 1992.
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14Optical ProfusionThe Optical Papers of Isaac Newton. Volume 1: The Optical Lectures, 1670-1672Isaac Newton Alan E. Shapiro (review)Isis 77 (1): 136-140. 1986.
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3Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of ScienceUniversity of Toronto Press. 1999.For forty years, beginning with the publication of the first modern English translation of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Stillman Drake was the most original and productive scholar of Galileo's scientific work of our age. During that time, he published sixteen books on Galileo, including translations of almost all the major writings, and Galileo at Work, the most comprehensive study of Galileo's life and works ever written. His collection Discoveries and Opinions on Galile…Read more
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33Toward a unified hypothesis of cortico-striato-pallido-thalamus function?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (1): 172-177. 1990.
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57Dopamine, schizophrenia, mania, and depression: Toward a unified hypothesis of cortico-striatopallido-thalamic functionBehavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (2): 197-208. 1987.
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15Toward a unified neuropsychiatric hypothesisBehavioral and Brain Sciences 10 (2): 226-245. 1987.
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20Essay Review: Ptolemy's Geography, An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters by J. Lennart Berggren and Alexander JonesAnnals of Science 60 (3): 313-320. 2003.
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28Neuropsychology of schizophrenia: The “hole” thing is wrongBehavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1): 51-53. 1991.
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11Don't leave the “un” off “consciousness”Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (4): 699-700. 1995.Gray extrapolates from circuit models of psychopathology to propose neural substrates for the contents of consciousness. I raise three concerns: knowledge of synaptic arrangements may be inadequate to fully support his model; latent inhibition deficits in schizophrenia, a focus of this and related models, are complex and deserve replication; and this conjecture omits discussion of the neuropsychological basis for the contents of the unconscious.
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33The Lunar Theories of Tycho Brahe and Christian Longomontanus in the Progymnasmata and Astronomia DanicaAnnals of Science 66 (1): 5-58. 2009.Summary Tycho Brahe's lunar theory, mostly the work of his assistant Christian Longomontanus, published in the Progymnasmata (1602), was the most advanced and accurate lunar theory yet developed. Its principal innovations are: the introduction of equant motion for the first inequality in order to separate the determination of direction and distance; a more accurate limit for the second inequality although requiring a more complex calculation; additional inequalities of the variation and, in plac…Read more
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