Daryn Lehoux
Department of Classics
Queen’s University
K7L 3N6
Curriculum vitæ
email: lehoux [at] queensu.ca
Research
- Ancient sciences, especially astronomy and astrology
- Epistemology
- Observation
- Astrometeorology
Selected Publications
Books
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What Did the Romans Know?
(Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Reviews: 1. Nature482.159 (‘Books in Brief’ notice)
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Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World: Parapegmata and Related Texts in Classical and Near-Eastern Societies (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Reviews: 1. Classical Review, 58.2 (by Katherina Volk)2. Nuncius ,23.I (by Fabio Acerbi) 3. Aestimatio , 5 (by Stefan Pedersen) 4. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2008.12.28 (by Tzvi Langermann) 5. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage,12.1 (by Jefferson Sauter) 6. Journal for the History of Astronomy, 41.1(by Nathan Sidoli) 7. Scripta Classica Israelica, 27 (by Sacha Stern) 8. Journal of Hellenic Studies, 129 (by Robert Hannah)9. Gnomon, 82.1 (by Alfred Schmid) 10. Isis,100.4 (by Clemency Montelle) 11. British Journal for the History of Science,43.2 (Eleanor Robson) 12. Metscience ,19.1 (by James Evans)
Papers
Ancient Science
- ‘Myth and Explanation in Manilius,’ in K. Volk and S. Green, eds.,
Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius’ Astronomica, (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011) p. 45-56
- ‘Natural Knowledge in Classical Antiquity,’ in P. Harrison, R. Numbers, and M. Shank, eds.,
Wrestling with Nature: From Omens to Science (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2011) p. 37-58
- Observers, Objects, and the Embedded Eye. Isis ,98 (2007) p. 447-467. (Winner of the History of Science Society's 2008 Price/Webster prize)
- Laws of Nature and Natural Laws. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 37 (2006) p. 527-549
- Tomorrow's News Today: Astrology, Fate, and the Ways Out. Representations, 95 (2006) p. 105-122
- Tropes, Facts, and Empiricism. Perspectives on Science, 11 (2003) p. 326-345
- Observation and Prediction in Ancient Astrology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 35 (2004) p. 227-246
- The Historicity Question in Mesopotamian Divination. In J.M. Steele and A. Imhausen, eds., Under One Sky: Astronomy and Mathematics in the Ancient Near East, Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 297 (Münster, Ugarit-Verlag, 2002) p. 209-222
- All Voids Large and Small, Being a Discussion of Place and Void in Strato of Lampsacus's Matter Theory. Apeiron ,32 (1999) p. 1-36
Delphic Oracle
Parapegmata
- Rethinking Parapegmata: The Puteoli Fragment. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik,157 (2006) p. 95-104
- The Miletus Parapegma Fragments. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 152 (2005) p. 125-140
- Image, Text, and Pattern: Reconstructing Parapegmata. In A. Jones, ed., Reconstructing Ancient Texts,Toronto, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming (preprint: page numbers not final)
- Impersonal and Intransitiveepisemainei . Classical Philology, 99 (2004) p. 78-85
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