Before Nature : Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science / / Francesca Rochberg
| Before Nature : Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science / / Francesca Rochberg |
| Autore | Rochberg Francesca |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2017] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina | 509.35 |
| Soggetto topico |
Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism
Science - Assyria Philosophy of nature - Assyria Learning and scholarship - Assyria Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian |
| ISBN |
9780226406275
022640627X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154289003321 |
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| Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2017] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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In the wake of the compendia : infrastructural contexts and the licensing of empiricism in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia / / edited by J. Cale Johnson
| In the wake of the compendia : infrastructural contexts and the licensing of empiricism in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia / / edited by J. Cale Johnson |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, Germany : , : De Gruyter, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Disciplina | 509.35 |
| Collana | Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Iraq - History - To 1500
Technology - Iraq - History - To 1500 Scientific literature - Iraq - History and criticism Technical literature - Iraq - History and criticism Reference books - Iraq - History - To 1500 Empiricism in literature Semitic literature - History and criticism Multilingualism and literature - Iraq - History - To 1500 Learning and scholarship - Iraq - History - To 1500 |
| ISBN |
1-5015-0250-6
1-5015-0252-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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 index |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996234837003316 |
| Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, Germany : , : De Gruyter, , 2015 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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In the wake of the compendia : infrastructural contexts and the licensing of empiricism in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia / / edited by J. Cale Johnson
| In the wake of the compendia : infrastructural contexts and the licensing of empiricism in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia / / edited by J. Cale Johnson |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, Germany : , : De Gruyter, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Disciplina | 509.35 |
| Collana | Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Iraq - History - To 1500
Technology - Iraq - History - To 1500 Scientific literature - Iraq - History and criticism Technical literature - Iraq - History and criticism Reference books - Iraq - History - To 1500 Empiricism in literature Semitic literature - History and criticism Multilingualism and literature - Iraq - History - To 1500 Learning and scholarship - Iraq - History - To 1500 |
| ISBN |
9781501502507
1501502506 9781501502521 1501502522 |
| Classificazione | EL 7980 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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 index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910341840903321 |
| Boston, [Massachusetts] ; ; Berlin, Germany : , : De Gruyter, , 2015 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The scaffolding of our thoughts : essays on Assyriology and the history of science in honor of Francesca Rochberg / / edited by C. Jay Crisostomo, Eduardo A. Escobar, Terri Tanaka, Niek Veldhuis
| The scaffolding of our thoughts : essays on Assyriology and the history of science in honor of Francesca Rochberg / / edited by C. Jay Crisostomo, Eduardo A. Escobar, Terri Tanaka, Niek Veldhuis |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (474 pages) |
| Disciplina | 509.35 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CrisostomoC. Jay
EscobarEduardo A TanakaTerri VeldhuisNiek RochbergFrancesca <1952-> |
| Collana | Ancient magic and divination |
| Soggetto topico |
Science, Ancient
Assyriology Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-04-36338-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Where Next for “Ancient Science”? / G.E.R. Lloyd -- Crow Omens in Mesopotamia / Ann Kessler Guinan -- Old Signs in New Dress? On the Meaning of Inanna’s Symbol as Sign and “Presence” in Early Babylonian Divination / Abraham Winitzer -- Material, Constellation, Image, God: The Fate of the Chosen Bull According to kar 50 and Duplicates / Alan Lenzi -- A Late Babylonian Compilation Concerning Ritual Timing and Materia Medica / Matthew Rutz -- bm 40187: A Birthnote for Two Named Individuals / M. Willis Monroe -- Converging Fortunes—Links between Celestial and Intestinal Divination / Ulla Koch -- Sumerian Divination / C. Jay Crisostomo -- The Form and History of a Babylonian Prayer to Nabû / Tzvi Abusch -- Translation in The Elevation of Ištar / Niek Veldhuis -- Judean Scribalism, Documentary Epistemology, and the Name ישׂראל / Jeffrey L. Cooley -- Dating eae. When was the Astrological Series Enūma Anu Ellil Created? / Nils P. Heeßel -- Bricoleurs in Babylonia: The Scribes of Enūma Anu Enlil / Eduardo A. Escobar and Laurie E. Pearce -- The Date of the Accession of Nabonidus to the Throne of Babylon: A Reappraisal of the Evidence / Grant Frame -- Intercalary Months in Achaemenid Elamite Administrative Documents from Persepolis / Matthew W. Stolper -- The Importance of Experts: Agents in the Transfer of Astral Knowledge between Hellenistic Mesopotamia and the Greek-speaking World / Zoë Misiewicz -- Diodorus on the Chaldeans / Alexander Jones and John Steele -- Observing Eclipses: An Optical Question in Problemata 15.11 / Alan C. Bowen -- Chaldeans on the Nile: Two Egyptian Astronomical Procedure Texts with Babylonian Systems A1 and A2 for Mercury / Mathieu Ossendrijver and Andreas Winkler -- Clever Machines and the Gods Who Make Them / Daryn Lehoux. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910511331003321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The scaffolding of our thoughts : essays on Assyriology and the history of science in honor of Francesca Rochberg / / edited by C. Jay Crisostomo, Eduardo A. Escobar, Terri Tanaka, Niek Veldhuis
| The scaffolding of our thoughts : essays on Assyriology and the history of science in honor of Francesca Rochberg / / edited by C. Jay Crisostomo, Eduardo A. Escobar, Terri Tanaka, Niek Veldhuis |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (474 pages) |
| Disciplina | 509.35 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CrisostomoC. Jay
EscobarEduardo A TanakaTerri VeldhuisNiek RochbergFrancesca <1952-> |
| Collana | Ancient magic and divination |
| Soggetto topico |
Science, Ancient
Assyriology Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian |
| ISBN | 90-04-36338-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Where Next for “Ancient Science”? / G.E.R. Lloyd -- Crow Omens in Mesopotamia / Ann Kessler Guinan -- Old Signs in New Dress? On the Meaning of Inanna’s Symbol as Sign and “Presence” in Early Babylonian Divination / Abraham Winitzer -- Material, Constellation, Image, God: The Fate of the Chosen Bull According to kar 50 and Duplicates / Alan Lenzi -- A Late Babylonian Compilation Concerning Ritual Timing and Materia Medica / Matthew Rutz -- bm 40187: A Birthnote for Two Named Individuals / M. Willis Monroe -- Converging Fortunes—Links between Celestial and Intestinal Divination / Ulla Koch -- Sumerian Divination / C. Jay Crisostomo -- The Form and History of a Babylonian Prayer to Nabû / Tzvi Abusch -- Translation in The Elevation of Ištar / Niek Veldhuis -- Judean Scribalism, Documentary Epistemology, and the Name ישׂראל / Jeffrey L. Cooley -- Dating eae. When was the Astrological Series Enūma Anu Ellil Created? / Nils P. Heeßel -- Bricoleurs in Babylonia: The Scribes of Enūma Anu Enlil / Eduardo A. Escobar and Laurie E. Pearce -- The Date of the Accession of Nabonidus to the Throne of Babylon: A Reappraisal of the Evidence / Grant Frame -- Intercalary Months in Achaemenid Elamite Administrative Documents from Persepolis / Matthew W. Stolper -- The Importance of Experts: Agents in the Transfer of Astral Knowledge between Hellenistic Mesopotamia and the Greek-speaking World / Zoë Misiewicz -- Diodorus on the Chaldeans / Alexander Jones and John Steele -- Observing Eclipses: An Optical Question in Problemata 15.11 / Alan C. Bowen -- Chaldeans on the Nile: Two Egyptian Astronomical Procedure Texts with Babylonian Systems A1 and A2 for Mercury / Mathieu Ossendrijver and Andreas Winkler -- Clever Machines and the Gods Who Make Them / Daryn Lehoux. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796958203321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The scaffolding of our thoughts : essays on Assyriology and the history of science in honor of Francesca Rochberg / / edited by C. Jay Crisostomo, Eduardo A. Escobar, Terri Tanaka, Niek Veldhuis
| The scaffolding of our thoughts : essays on Assyriology and the history of science in honor of Francesca Rochberg / / edited by C. Jay Crisostomo, Eduardo A. Escobar, Terri Tanaka, Niek Veldhuis |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (474 pages) |
| Disciplina | 509.35 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CrisostomoC. Jay
EscobarEduardo A TanakaTerri VeldhuisNiek RochbergFrancesca <1952-> |
| Collana | Ancient magic and divination |
| Soggetto topico |
Science, Ancient
Assyriology Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian |
| ISBN | 90-04-36338-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Where Next for “Ancient Science”? / G.E.R. Lloyd -- Crow Omens in Mesopotamia / Ann Kessler Guinan -- Old Signs in New Dress? On the Meaning of Inanna’s Symbol as Sign and “Presence” in Early Babylonian Divination / Abraham Winitzer -- Material, Constellation, Image, God: The Fate of the Chosen Bull According to kar 50 and Duplicates / Alan Lenzi -- A Late Babylonian Compilation Concerning Ritual Timing and Materia Medica / Matthew Rutz -- bm 40187: A Birthnote for Two Named Individuals / M. Willis Monroe -- Converging Fortunes—Links between Celestial and Intestinal Divination / Ulla Koch -- Sumerian Divination / C. Jay Crisostomo -- The Form and History of a Babylonian Prayer to Nabû / Tzvi Abusch -- Translation in The Elevation of Ištar / Niek Veldhuis -- Judean Scribalism, Documentary Epistemology, and the Name ישׂראל / Jeffrey L. Cooley -- Dating eae. When was the Astrological Series Enūma Anu Ellil Created? / Nils P. Heeßel -- Bricoleurs in Babylonia: The Scribes of Enūma Anu Enlil / Eduardo A. Escobar and Laurie E. Pearce -- The Date of the Accession of Nabonidus to the Throne of Babylon: A Reappraisal of the Evidence / Grant Frame -- Intercalary Months in Achaemenid Elamite Administrative Documents from Persepolis / Matthew W. Stolper -- The Importance of Experts: Agents in the Transfer of Astral Knowledge between Hellenistic Mesopotamia and the Greek-speaking World / Zoë Misiewicz -- Diodorus on the Chaldeans / Alexander Jones and John Steele -- Observing Eclipses: An Optical Question in Problemata 15.11 / Alan C. Bowen -- Chaldeans on the Nile: Two Egyptian Astronomical Procedure Texts with Babylonian Systems A1 and A2 for Mercury / Mathieu Ossendrijver and Andreas Winkler -- Clever Machines and the Gods Who Make Them / Daryn Lehoux. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826709103321 |
| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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