Writing science before the Greeks : a naturalistic analysis of the Babylonian astronomical treatise MUL. APIN /
The 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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Akkadian |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Series: | Culture and history of the ancient Near East ;
v. 48. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter One MUL. APIN; Chapter Two Writing and Conceptual Change; Chapter Three Terms of Analysis; Chapter Four MUL. APIN: Text and Analysis; Chapter Five Summary of Results; Chapter Six Discussion: MUL. APIN, Writing, and Science; Chapter Seven Further Thoughts: The Cognitive Function of Writing in MUL. APIN; Chapter Eight A Final Word: From List to Axiom; Bibliography; Appendix One The Translated Text of MUL. APIN; Appendix Two The Babylonian Month-Names; Appendix Three Tablet and Line Correspondences with Hunger-Pingree.
