Review of Cooley's Poetic Astronomy

 Stephen Russell's review of Jeff Cooley's Poetic Astronomy nails it. "Throughout...
Cooley offers a balanced treatment of the evidence. He avoids the speculative adventures
of the old pan-Babylonian school, who at times overread the data, and the idealized
reconstructions of historians of science, who at times isolated the data from the cultural
contexts that produced them. As a result, readers are likely to agree with the broad theses
of the book even where they might disagree with its treatment of one piece of evidence or
another."