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New Books 2009-10

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New Books and Journals 2008-2010

Isabelle Boehm, Pascal Luccioni (ed.), Le médecin initié par l'animal: animaux et médecine dans l'Antiquité grecque et latine. Actes du colloque international tenu à la Maison de l'Orient de la Méditerranée-Jean Pouilloux les 26 et 27 octobre 2006. Collection de la maison de l'orient et de la Méditerranée 39.  Lyon 2008. ISBN 9782356680020.  €29.00 (pb).  Reviewed in: BMCR 2010.03.23

Journal: Galenos. Rivista di filologia dei testi medici 1, 2007
first issue reviewed http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2009/2009-03-03.html

Asper, Markus, Griechische Wissenschaftstexte. Formen, Funktionen , Differenzierungsgeschichten, Stuttgart 2007 (ISBN 978-3-515-08959-3)Automata 2, 2007 (Rivista di Natura, Scienza e Tecnica del mondo antico - Journal of Nature, Sciences and Technics in the Ancient World).

Beck, Roger, A Brief History of Ancient Astrology, Malden (MA), 2007 reviewed by J. Komorowska: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-04-63.hmtl

Brockmann, Chr., W. Brunschön, O. Overwien (edd.), Antike Medizin im Schnittpunkt von Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften, Berlin 2009 

Craik, Elizabeth M. (ed.), The Hippocratic Treatise On Glands. Studies in Ancient Medicine v. 36.   Leiden:  Brill, 2009 reviewed by Robert Mayhew: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-11-04.html 

Hankinson, R.J. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Galenos. Cambridge / New York 2008

Heilmeyer, Marina, Ancient Herbs. Translated by David J. Baker. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-09-63.html

Keyser, Paul T. and Georgia L. Irby-Massie, The Encyclopedia of ancient natural scientists: the Greek tradition and its many heirs, London/New York 2008 http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-08-25.html

King, H., Dasen, V., La médecine dans l'Antiquité grecque et romaine.  Lausanne 2008. Reviewed by Lydie Bodiou, http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-04-68.html

Lehoux, Daryn, Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World, Cambridge/New York 2007
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2008/2009-12-28.html

Lo Presti, Roberto, In forma di senso: l'encecaflocentrismo del trttato ippocratico. Studi malattia sacra nel suo contesto epistemologico. Roma 2008

Mattern, Susan P. , Galen and the rhetoric of healing, Baltimore 2008 reviewed by Shelley Reid http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-04-36.html

Nicastro, Nicholas, Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 2008. 
Reviewed by T.E. Rihll, http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-07-14.html

Pàmias, J., Geus, K., Eratosthenes, Sternsagen, Oberhaid 2007 reviewed by Markus Apser http:// ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2008/2008-16.html

Petter, C., Mitchell, L.C., Letter-Writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present, Columbia 2007 reviewed by Ioana Costa: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2008/2008-02-07.html

Popovic, Mladen, Reading the Human Body: physiognomics and astrology in the Dead Sea scrolls and Hellenistic-early Roman period Judaism, Leiden/Boston 2007 

Saliou, Catherine (ed., transl., comment.), Vitruve: De l'architecture. Livre V, Paris 2009

Schneider, Helmut, Geschichte der antiken Technik, München 2007, reviewed by Edith Foster with translated table of contents http://ccas.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2008/2008-03-46.html

Talbert, Richard J.A.; Unger, Richard W. (edd.), Cartography in antiquity and the Middle Ages: fresh perspectives, new methods. Leiden/Boston 2008

Totelin, Laurence M.V., Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Greece. Studies in Ancient Medicine 34.   Leiden/Boston:  Brill, 2009, Reviewed by Magali de Haro Sanchez,http://ccas.upenn.edu/2009/2009-10-42.html

Volk, Katharina. Manilius and his intellectual background. Oxford/New York 2009