1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154289003321

Autore

Rochberg Francesca

Titolo

Before Nature : Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science / / Francesca Rochberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2017]

©2016

ISBN

9780226406275

022640627X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

509.35

Soggetti

Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism

Science - Assyria

Philosophy of nature - Assyria

Learning and scholarship - Assyria

Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. The Ancient Near East, Science, and Nature -- Part I. Historiography -- Part II. Cuneiform Knowledge and Its Interpretive Framework -- Part III. Rationality, Analogy, and Law -- Part IV. The Cuneiform World of Observation, Prediction, and Explanation -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the "natural world" confronts us all and always has-but Before Nature explores that almost unimaginable time when there was no such conception of "nature"-no word, reference, or sense for it. Before the concept of nature formed over the long history of European philosophy and science, our ancestors in ancient Assyria and Babylonia developed an inquiry into the world in a way that is kindred to our modern science. With Before Nature, Francesca Rochberg explores that Assyro-Babylonian knowledge tradition and shows how it relates to the entire history of science. From a modern, Western perspective, a world not conceived somehow within the framework of physical nature is



difficult-if not impossible-to imagine. Yet, as Rochberg lays out, ancient investigations of regularity and irregularity, norms and anomalies clearly established an axis of knowledge between the knower and an intelligible, ordered world. Rochberg is the first scholar to make a case for how exactly we can understand cuneiform knowledge, observation, prediction, and explanation in relation to science-without recourse to later ideas of nature. Systematically examining the whole of Mesopotamian science with a distinctive historical and methodological approach, Before Nature will open up surprising new pathways for studying the history of science.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISANNIOUSM1761863

Autore

Hopfner, Clemens

Titolo

Die systemkonforme Auslegung : Zur Auflosung einfachgesetzlicher, verfassungsrechtlicher und europarechtlicher Widerspruche im Recht / Clemens Hopfner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tubingen, : Mohr Siebeck, [2008]

ISBN

9783161496691

Descrizione fisica

XVII, 439 p. ; 24 cm.

Collana

Grundlagen der Rechtswissenschaft ; 11

Disciplina

340.1

Soggetti

Diritto - Metodologia

Diritto - Interpretazione

Collocazione

D         (C) 21                  252

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia