LEADER 04407nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910807152803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-12094-1 010 $a9786613120946 010 $a90-04-20231-5 024 7 $a10.1163/ej.9789004202306.i-223 035 $a(CKB)2670000000092672 035 $a(EBL)717528 035 $a(OCoLC)727949975 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000503055 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11319124 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000503055 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10451350 035 $a(PQKB)11535248 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC717528 035 $a(OCoLC)695683527 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004202313 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL717528 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10470538 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL312094 035 $a(PPN)170734986 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000092672 100 $a20110106d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWriting science before the Greeks$b[electronic resource] $ea naturalistic analysis of the Babylonian astronomical treatise MUL.APIN /$fby Rita Watson and Wayne Horowitz 210 $aLeiden ;$aBoston $cBrill$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (251 p.) 225 1 $aCulture and history of the ancient Near East,$x1566-2055 ;$vv. 48 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-04-20230-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tPreliminary Material /$rR. Watson and W. Horowitz --$tChapter One. MUL.APIN /$rR. Watson and W. Horowitz --$tChapter Two. Writing And Conceptual Change /$rR. Watson and W. Horowitz --$tChapter Three. Terms Of Analysis /$rR. Watson and W. Horowitz --$tChapter Four. MUL.APIN: Text And Analysis /$rR. Watson and W. Horowitz --$tChapter Five. Summary Of Results /$rR. Watson and W. Horowitz --$tChapter Six. Discussion: MUL.APIN, Writing, And Science /$rR. Watson and W. Horowitz --$tChapter Seven. Further Thoughts: The Cognitive Function Of Writing In MUL.APIN /$rR. Watson and W. Horowitz --$tChapter Eight. A Final Word: From List To Axiom /$rR. Watson and W. Horowitz --$tBibliography /$rR. Watson and W. Horowitz --$tAppendix One. The Translated Text Of MUL.APIN /$rR. Watson and W. Horowitz --$tAppendix Two. The Babylonian Month-Names /$rR. Watson and W. Horowitz --$tAppendix Three. Tablet And Line Correspondences With Hunger-Pingree /$rR. Watson and W. Horowitz --$tSubject Index /$rR. Watson and W. Horowitz --$tAuthor Index /$rR. Watson and W. Horowitz --$tAkkadian And Sumerian Word Index /$rR. Watson and W. Horowitz --$tMUL.APIN Text Citation Index /$rR. Watson and W. Horowitz. 330 $aThe beginnings of written science have long been associated with classical Greece. Yet in ancient Mesopotamia, highly-sophisticated scientific works in cuneiform script were in active use while Greek civilization flourished in the West. The subject of this volume is the astronomical series MUL.APIN, which can be dated to the seventh century BCE and which represents the crowning achievement of traditional Mesopotamian observational astronomy. Writing Science before the Greeks explores this early text from the perspective of modern cognitive science in an effort to articulate the processes underlying its composition. The analysis suggests that writing itself, through the cumulative recording of observations, played a role in the evolution of scientific thought. \'All in all, the authors should be congratulated for this groundbreaking study. Apart from significant new insights into MUL.APIN it has opened up a new avenue for research on ancient scientific texts that is likely to yield further interesting results, particularly if the cognitive analysis is combined with other approaches.\' Mathieu Ossendrijver, Humboldt University 410 0$aCulture and history of the ancient Near East ;$vv. 48. 606 $aAstronomy, Assyro-Babylonian 606 $aAkkadian language$vTexts 615 0$aAstronomy, Assyro-Babylonian. 615 0$aAkkadian language 676 $a520.935 700 $aWatson$b Rita$f1949-$01704424 701 $aHorowitz$b Wayne$f1957-$01704425 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807152803321 996 $aWriting science before the Greeks$94090454 997 $aUNINA