Greg Kindall writes to alert us to a new online journal:
Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science
Aestimatio is an on-line journal.Aestimatio provides critical, timely assessments of books published in the history of what was called science from antiquity up to the early modern period in cultures ranging from Spain to India, and from Africa to northern Europe. The aim is to allow reviewers the opportunity to engage critically both the results of research in the history of science and how these results are obtained.
Reviewed in Vol I:
- Jens Hoyrup, Lengths, Widths, Surfaces: A Portrait of Old Babylonian Algebra and Its Kin
- A. Mark Smith, Alhacen's Theory of Visual Perception: A Critical Edition
- Gerrit Bos, Maimonides: On Asthma
- Laurence E. Sigler, Fibonacci's Liber Abaci
