New ISAW Library Titles: April 2017
A list of books added to the ISAW Library in April 2017 is now available online on the ISAW Library website. The titles are sorted in the website version according to thematic topics (e.g., "East Asia" and "Ancient Near East & Asia Minor"); and within each topic, the titles are organized according to Library of Congress classification. The authors and titles of works in non-Roman languages are given in their original script. This list is also available in a Zotero library and as a browsable map created using Google Fusion Tables. [Update, February 2021: Our new map interface is now live. The April 2017 map is available here.]
Ancient science, astronomy, and medicine take center stage in the 207 new items added to the library in April, including the 20-volume Cambridge reprint of the Kühn edition of Galen's complete works, the recently-published 6th volume in Les Belles Lettres' ongoing critical edition of Galen, and three volumes of the Teubner edition of Ptolemy's works. Additional titles on ancient science this month include:
- A portable cosmos: revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world by Alexander Jones, ISAW's Leon Levy Director and Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity (Small Collection QB107 .J65 2017)
- Jöran Friberg's A remarkable collection of Babylonian mathematical texts (Large Collection QA22 .F749 2007)
- Regine Leurquin's edition of Théodore Méliténiote, "Tribiblos Astronomique" (Small Collection QB41 .M55 1990 v. 2:pt. 1-2)
- A scientific humanist: studies in memory of Abraham Sachs, edited by Erle Leichty, Maria deJ. Ellis, and Pamela Gerardi (Large Collection QB19 .S44 1988)
- Liber amicorum - speculum siderum: Nūt astrophoros : papers presented to Alicia Maravelia, edited by Nadine Guilhou (Large Collection DT61 .L68 2016)
As always, the titles added to the ISAW Library for the entire academic year may be found both on our website and in our Zotero library. You can also follow our progress on Facebook and Twitter.
If you have any comments or suggestions about our recent acquisitions, the associated Zotero library, or our ongoing collection mapping project, please feel free to contact us.