Ancient and Medieval Sciences (Not Currently Active)

A. Şen, “Reading the Stars at the Ottoman Court,” Arabica 64 (2017): 557–608
N. Shafir, “Forging Islamic science,” Aeon

M. Ryan, Kingdom of Stargazers. Astrology and Authority in the Late Medieval
Crown of Aragon, chaps 2 & 4.
[Note, I've included the table of contents and the introduction in case you want a sense of the larger book project.]

M. Berrey, Hellenistic Science at Court. Science, Technology and Medicine in
Ancient Cultures, chaps 3 & 4.
[Note, I've included the table of contents and the introduction in case you want a sense of the larger book project.]

• E. Truitt, “The Incarnation of Time,” in L’automate: modèle, machine, merveille (2013), 365–378.
• G. Rossum, “From Prestige Object to Urban Accessory,” in History of the Hour (1996), 125–172.

• J. Davis, “A Royal English Medieval Astrolabe Made for Use in Northern Italy”
• C. Eagleton, “‘Chaucer’s Own Astrolabe’: Text, Image and Object”
• J. Bennett, “The So-Called ‘Chaucer Astrolabe’ from the Koelliker Collection, Milan”
• M. Abuzayed & D. King, “From a Heavenly Arabic Poem to an Enigmatic Judaeo-Arabic Astrolabe”

Optional:

• E. Dekker, “A Close Look at Two Astrolabes and Their Star Tables”
• E. Dekker, “Of Astrolabes and Dates and Dead Ends”

• C. Eagleton, “Medieval Sundials and Manuscript Sources: The Transmission of Information about the Navicula and the Organum Ptolomei in Fifteenth-Century Europe”
• J. Evans & M. Marée, “A Miniature Ivory Sundial with Equinox Indicator from Ptolemaic Tanis, Egypt”
• D. King, “An Instrument of Mass Calculation made by Naṭūlus in Baghdad ca. 900”

Optional (somewhat more technical) Readings:

• M. Arnaldi, “An Ancient Rule for Making Portable Altitude Sundials from an “Unedited” Medieval Text of the Tenth Century”
• M. Wright, “Greek and Roman Portable Sundials: An Ancient Essay in Approximation”

• M. Osborn, “Anglo-Saxon Ethnobotany: Women's Reproductive Medicine in Leechbook III” in Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden (2015), 145–161.
• C.M. Guardiola-Griffiths, “Homegrown: From the Woman’s Workplace to the Medieval Garden” La corónica 44 (2015): 39–65.

• L. Voigts, “Anglo-Saxon Plant Remedies and the Anglo-Saxons” Isis 70 (1979): 250–68.
• P. Rusche, “The Sources for Plant Names in Anglo-Saxon England and the Laud Herbal Glossary” Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden (2015), 128–144.

 Optional: 

• M. D’Aronco, “Gardens on Velum: Plants and Herbs in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts” Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden (2015), 101–127.

• Wiston Black, “‘I will add what the Arab once taught’: Constantine the African in Northern European Medical Verse,” in Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West (Ashgate, 2012), 153–185.
• K. Reeds and T. Kinukawa, “Medieval Natural History,” in Cambridge History of Science—Medieval Science (CUP), 569–589

• U. Engelhardt, “Dietetics in Tang China and the first extant works of materia medica,” Innovation in Chinese Medicine, E. Hsu (ed.), (CUP, 2001), 173–191.
• D. Harper, “Ancient and Medieval Chinese Recipes for Aphrodisiacs and Philters.” Asian Medicine 1.1(2005): 91–100.
• R. Sterckx, “The Limits of Illustration: Animalia and Pharmacopeia from Guo Pu to Bencao gangmu,” Asian Medicine 4(2008): 357–394.