Liba Taub

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Liba Taub is affiliated with the following schools: Eastern Michigan University, University of Oklahoma, University of Cambridge

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According to Wikipedia, Liba Taub is an American historian of science, now Curator of the Whipple Museum in Cambridge, UK. Taub completed a doctorate in 1987 at the University of Oklahoma. She held the position of Curator at the Adler Planetarium. Much of her research goes into ancient Greek and Roman astronomy, physics and meteorology and researching the history of scientific instruments. She became a Fellow of Newnham College in 1996 and serves as a professor of History and Philosophy of Science. Taub has been an Einstein Visiting Fellow at the Excellence Cluster Topoi in Berlin since 2010, in which she has participated in various workshops and workshops on Ancient Greek and Roman scientific writing. She has authored books such as Ptolemy’s Universe: The Natural Philosophical and Ethical Foundations of Ptolemy’s Astronomy , Ancient Meteorology , and Aetna and the Moon: Explaining Nature in Ancient Greece and Rome .

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Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era: A Sourcebook (2001) (40)
Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2017) (36)
Scientific Instruments (2009) (36)
Ptolemy's Universe: The Natural Philosophical and Ethical Foundations of Ptolemy's Astronomy (1993) (33)
Introduction: Reengaging with Instruments (2011) (27)
Physiological Analogies and Metaphors In Explanations of the Earth and the Cosmos (2012) (24)
Evolutionary ideas and ‘empirical’ methods: the analogy between language and species in works by Lyell and Schleicher (1993) (15)
Aetna and the Moon: Explaining Nature in Ancient Greece and Rome (2008) (13)
The rehabilitation of wretched subjects. (1997) (13)
Structures and strategies in ancient Greek and Roman technical writing: An Introduction (2012) (13)
The historical function of the forma Urbis Romae1 (1993) (10)
On the role of museums in history of science, technology and medicine (1998) (10)
The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Instruments and Interpretations, to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to the University of Cambridge (2006) (7)
Eratosthenes sends greetings to King Ptolemy : Reading the contents of a 'mathematical' letter (2008) (6)
Science for the Nation: Perspectives on the History of the Science Museum (2014) (6)
On the Variety of ‘Genres’ of Greek Mathematical Writing: Thinking about Mathematical Texts and Modes of Mathematical Discourse (2013) (5)
Cosmology and meteorology (2009) (4)
‘Problematising’ the Problemata: The Problemata in Relation to Other Question-and-Answer Texts (2015) (4)
Preserving nature? Ecology, tourism and other themes in the national parks (2006) (4)
What is a scientific instrument, now? (2018) (3)
Porphyry’s Commentary on Ptolemy’s Harmonics: A Greek Text and Annotated Translation, edited and translated by Barker, A. (2019) (3)
‘CANNED ASTRONOMY’ VERSUS CULTURAL CREDIBILITY The acquisition of the Mensing Collection by the Adler Planetarium (1995) (2)
Instruments of Alexandrian Astronomy: The Uses of the Equinoctial Rings (2002) (2)
Book Review:Origen and the Life of the Stars: A History of an Idea Alan Scott (1993) (1)
Aetna and the moon (2008) (1)
Geminos’s Introduction to the Phaenomena: A Translation and Study of a Hellenistic Survey of Astronomy (review) (2008) (1)
Book Review:Roman Nature: The Thought of Pliny the Elder Mary Beagon (1994) (1)
Archytas of Tarentum: Pythagorean, Philosopher, and Mathematician King (review) (2007) (1)
Three‐Dimensional Models (2016) (1)
Book Review:The Criterion of Truth: Essays Written in Honor of George Kerferd, together with a Text and Translation (With Annotations) of Ptolemy's "On the Kriterion and Hegemonikon" Pamela Huby, Gordon Neal (1991) (1)
Ancient Meteorology. "Sciences in Antiquity" (2006) (1)
Book Review:Euclid's Phaenomena: A Translation and Study of a Hellenistic Treatise in Spherical Astronomy Euclid, J. L. Berggren, R. S. D. Thomas (1997) (1)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Book Review: Insights into de Caelo: New Perspectives on Aristotle's De caelo (2011) (0)
Astronomy in Its Contexts (2020) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
Reflection I (2021) (0)
4. Archiving Scientific Ideas in Greco- Roman Antiquity (2019) (0)
Ancient Sundials (Database) (2016) (0)
Into The Trashcan (1972) (0)
Reviews (2010) (0)
Celebrating Science in Ancient Greece and Rome (2019) (0)
EPICUREAN NATURAL PHILOSOPHY (2018) (0)
Book Review: Manilius Elucidated, Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius' Astronomica (2013) (0)
Arithmetical Epigrams from Book 14 of The Greek Anthology (2017) (0)
Instruments in the Library (2020) (0)
Review of The Cambridge History of Science. Volume 1, Ancient Science, ed. Alexander Jones and Liba Taub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018 (2022) (0)
Meteorology (2019) (0)
2 Selling by the Book: British Scientific Trade Literature after 1800 (2017) (0)
Book Review:Before "Eureka": The Presocratics and Their Science Robin Waterfield (1991) (0)
Determining the Equinox in Alexandria : what were Ptolemy's rings used for ? (2002) (0)
Book Review: Ancient Astrology in Outline, a Brief History of Ancient Astrology (2009) (0)
Treasures of the Science Museum. 131 pp., illus. London: Yomiuri Shimbun and the Trustees of the Science Museum, 1998. €100. (2004) (0)
ANDREW BARKER Scientific Method in Ptolemy's ‘Harmonics’ Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000 cloth £45.00 ISBN: 0-521-55372-5 (2006) (0)
Data of Ancient Greek Parapegmata (2021) (0)
Review of The Cambridge History of Science. Volume 1, Ancient Science, ed. Alexander Jones and Liba Taub. Press, 2018. (2022) (0)
David Creese, The Monochord in Ancient Greek Harmonic Science . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi+409. ISBN 978-0-521-84324-9. £65.00 (hardback). (2011) (0)
"Perhaps Irrelevant". The Iconography of Tycho Brahe's Small Gilt Brass Quadrant. (2015) (0)
Introduction (2019) (0)
Science after Aristotle: Hellenistic and Roman Science (2018) (0)
Concepts Concerning the Moon in Plutarch’s De facie in orbe lunae – Found, Inherited, or Borrowed Ideas (2019) (0)
Book Review: Diptych Sundials: Ivory Diptych Sundials 1570–1750: A Catalogue of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University (1994) (0)
Emma Gee.Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition. (Classical Culture and Society.) xi + 298 pp., apps., bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. $65 (cloth). (2015) (0)
The Ideals of Inquiry: An Ancient History, by G.E.R. Lloyd (2016) (0)
Philosophy and physics in book one of "The mathematical syntaxis" : an examination of the "Aristotelianism" of Ptolemy (1987) (0)
Book Review: Reappraising Philolaus: Philolaus of Croton: Pythagorean and Presocratic (1996) (0)
(S.) Berryman The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greed Natural Philosophy . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 286, illus. £50. 9780521763769. (2011) (0)
Andrew Barker, The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii+481 pp. (2008) (0)

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