Between demonstration and imagination. Essays in the history of science and philosophy presented to John D. North (Q2703824)

The articles of mathematical interest will be reviewed individually.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE The 16 papers of this volume include the following: Lodi Nauta, Due North (vii--xiv); David A. King, Bringing astronomical instruments back to earth -- the geographical data on medieval astrolabes (to ca. 1100) (3-53); Richard Lorch, The treatise on the astrolabe by Rudolf of Bruges (55-100); Julio Samso, Horoscopes and history: Ibn Azzuz and his retrospective horoscopes related to the battle of El Salado (1340) (101-124); Bruce S. Eastwood, Calcidius's commentary on Plato's Timaeus in Latin astronomy of the ninth to eleventh centuries (171-209); Owen Gingerich, Sacrobosco illustrated (211-224); Bernard R. Goldstein, Astronomy in the medieval Spanish Jewish community (225-241); Keith Hutchison, A strange fact about Aristotelian dynamics (269-283); K. V. Snedegar, The works and days of Simon Bredon, a fourteenth-century astronomer and physician (285-309); G. Federici Vescovini, Les Vite di matematici arabi de Bernardino Baldi (Urbino 1553-1617) [Bernardino Baldi's Lives of Arab mathematicians (Urbino, 1553-1617)] (395-407); Bibliography of John D. North (409-417).NEWLINENEWLINEIndexed articles:NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{King, David A.}, Bringing astronomical instruments back to Earth -- the geographical data on medieval astrolabes (to ca. 1100), 3-53 [Zbl 0968.01505]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Lorch, Richard}, The treatise on the astrolabe by Rudolf of Bruges, 55-100 [Zbl 0980.01007]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Samsó, Julio}, Horoscopes and history: Ibn `Azzūz and his retrospective horoscopes related to the battle of El Salado (1340), 101-124 [Zbl 0968.01500]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Eastwood, Bruce S.}, Calcidius's commentary on Plato's Timaeus in Latin astronomy of the ninth to eleventh centuries, 171-209 [Zbl 0968.01506]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Gingerich, Owen}, Sacrobosco illustrated, 211-224 [Zbl 0968.01503]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Goldstein, Bernard R.}, Astronomy in the medieval Spanish Jewish community, 225-241 [Zbl 0968.01502]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Hutchison, Keith}, A strange fact about Aristotelian dynamics, 269-283 [Zbl 0980.01005]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Snedegar, K. V.}, The works and days of Simon Bredon, a fourteenth-century astronomer and physician, 285-309 [Zbl 0968.01504]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Pätzold, Detlev}, Ist Tschirnhaus' Medicina mentis ein Ableger von Spinozas Methodologie?, 339-364 [Zbl 0968.01511]NEWLINENEWLINE\textit{Federici Vescovini, G.}, Les vies des mathématiciens arabes de Bernardino Baldi (Urbino 1553--1617), 395-407 [Zbl 0968.01519]NEWLINENEWLINEBibliography of John D. North, 409-417 [Zbl 0968.01518]