In the wake of the compendia : infrastructural contexts and the licensing of empiricism in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia
La 4e de couverture porte : "In the "Wake of the Compendia" examines the composition of technical literature in the ancient Semitic-speaking world.Compendia on astrology, magic, medicine, lexicography, and alchemy were composed in several languages and relate to earlier Mesopotamian m...
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| Sprog: | Anglais |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter
2015.
Berlin ; Boston : |
| Serier: | Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures
volume 3 |
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Notice rédigée d'après la consultation du 2017-08-22 Version électronique de Boston : De Gruyter, cop. 2015 De Gruyter e-books Corpus Sciences de l'Antiquité (Licence nationale) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • In the wake of the compendia, infrastructural contexts and the licensing of empiricism in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia, edited by J. Cale Johnson, Boston, De Gruyter, 2015, 1 vol. (X-326 p.), Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures, 978-1-501-51076-2 |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Introduction: "Infrastructural compendia" and the licensing of empiricism in Mesopotamian technical literature / J. Cale Johnson
- Part A. The infrastructural compendium
- Part B. Licensing empiricism : replication and authority in Mesopotamian technical literature
- Part C. The two paradigms : towards a new textual criticism for Mesopotamian technical compendia
- Encyclopaedias and commentaries / M.J. Geller
- Compendia and procedures in the Mesopotamian astral sciences / Mathieu Ossendrijver
- Listenwissenschaft and the encyclopedic hermeneutics of knowledge in Talmud and Midrash / Lennart Lehmhaus
- "Tested" remedies in Mesopotamian medical texts : a label for efficacy based on empirical observation? / Ulrike Steinert
- Theory and practice in the Syriac Book of Medicines : the empirical basis for the persistence of Near Eastern medical lore / Siam Bhayro
- The "science of properties" and its transmission / Lucia Raggetti
- Between demonology and hagiology : the Slavonic rendering of the Semitic Magical Historiola of the Child-Stealing Witch / Florentina Badalanova Geller
- The Babylonians and the rational : reasoning in cuneiform scribal scholarship / Francesca Rochberg
- Phenomena in writing : creating and interpreting variants of the diagnostic series Sa-Gig / John Z. Wee
- Depersonalized case histories in the Babylonian therapeutic compendia / J. Cale Johnson
- Source index
- Subject index
- Author index
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