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In the Wake of the Compendia

Infrastructural Contexts and the Licensing of Empiricism in Ancient and Medieval Mesopotamia

J. Cale Johnson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2015
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-1-5015-1076-2 (ISBN)

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In the Wake of the Compendia examines the composition of technical literature in the ancient Semitic-speaking world. This volume offers new perspectives on the early history of these compendia and their subsequent transmission into later post-cuneiform compilations, curricula, and scholarly writings.

In 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.

J. Cale Johnson, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.10.2015
Reihe/Serie	Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures ; 3
Zusatzinfo	5 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	705 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-5015-1076-2 / 1501510762
ISBN-13	978-1-5015-1076-2 / 9781501510762
Zustand	Neuware