04977nam 22008773 450 991034184090332120211105200441.01-5015-0250-61-5015-0252-210.1515/9781501502507(CKB)3710000000519757(EBL)4338416(SSID)ssj0001583108(PQKBManifestationID)16260212(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001583108(PQKBWorkID)14799381(PQKB)10999924(MiAaPQ)EBC4338416(DE-B1597)451306(OCoLC)933264458(DE-B1597)9781501502507(Au-PeEL)EBL4338416(CaPaEBR)ebr11146677(CaONFJC)MIL888795(PPN)190197234(EXLCZ)99371000000051975720160210h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIn the wake of the compendia infrastructural contexts and the licensing of empiricism in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia /edited by J. Cale JohnsonBoston, [Massachusetts] ;Berlin, Germany :De Gruyter,2015.©20151 online resource (336 p.)Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures,2194-976X ;Volume 3Description based upon print version of record.1-5015-1076-2 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.Frontmatter --Acknowledgements --Contents --Introduction --Encyclopaedias and Commentaries --Compendia and Procedures in the Mesopotamian Astral Sciences --Listenwissenschaft and the Encyclopedic Hermeneutics of Knowledge in Talmud and Midrash --‘Tested’ Remedies in Mesopotamian Medical Texts --Theory and Practice in the Syriac Book of Medicines --The ‘Science of Properties’ and its Transmission --Between Demonology and Hagiology --The Babylonians and the Rational --Phenomena in Writing --Depersonalized Case Histories in the Babylonian Therapeutic Compendia --Source index --Subject index --Word indexIn the Wake of the Compendia presents papers that examine the history of technical compendia as they moved between institutions and societies in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia.This volume offers new perspectives on the development and transmission of technical compilations, looking especially at the relationship between empirical knowledge and textual transmission in early scientific thinking. The eleven contributions to the volume derive from a panel held at the American Oriental Society in 2013 and cover more than three millennia of historical development, ranging from Babylonian medicine and astronomy to the persistence of Mesopotamian lore in Syriac and Arabic meditations on the properties of animals. The volume also includes major contributions on the history of Mesopotamian “rationality,” epistemic labels for tested and tried remedies, and the development of depersonalized case histories in Babylonian therapeutic compendia. Together, these studies offer an overview of several important moments in the development of non-Western scientific thinking and a significant contribution to our understanding of how traditions of technical knowledge were produced and transmitted in the ancient world.Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures ;Volume 3.ScienceIraqHistoryTo 1500TechnologyIraqHistoryTo 1500Scientific literatureIraqHistory and criticismTechnical literatureIraqHistory and criticismReference booksIraqHistoryTo 1500Empiricism in literatureSemitic literatureHistory and criticismMultilingualism and literatureIraqHistoryTo 1500Learning and scholarshipIraqHistoryTo 1500IraqIntellectual lifecompilation and redaction in the ancient world.early scientific thought.empiricism.infrastructural compendia.ScienceHistoryTechnologyHistoryScientific literatureHistory and criticism.Technical literatureHistory and criticism.Reference booksHistoryEmpiricism in literature.Semitic literatureHistory and criticism.Multilingualism and literatureHistoryLearning and scholarshipHistory509.35EL 7980rvkJohnson Justin Cale1971-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910341840903321In the wake of the compendia1399372UNINA