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Worldmaking and cuneiform antiquity : an anthropology of science / Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley.
Penn Museum Library Q124.95 .R63 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rochberg, Francesca, 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science, Ancient.
- Assyriology.
- Astrology, Assyro-Babylonian.
- Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian.
- Cuneiform tablets--Iraq--Babylonia.
- Cuneiform tablets.
- Cuneiform tablets--Assyria.
- Scientific literature--Iraq--Babylonia--History and criticism.
- Scientific literature.
- Scientific literature--Assyria--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Extends an anthropology of science to the historical world of cuneiform texts of ancient Babylonia. Exploring how Babylonian science has been understood, she proposes a new direction for scholarship by recognizing the world of ancient science, not as a less developed form of modern science, but as legitimate and real in its own right"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I. Historiography of Science
- These Bones Live!
- Cuneiform Texts and the Historiography of Science
- The Early Shaping of a Modern Historiography of Ancient Astronomical Sciences
- Part II. Worldmaking and the Anthropology of Science
- The Idea of Worlds
- Uses of Diversity
- Worldmaking in Cuneiform Culture
- Imago Mundi.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781009522335
- 1009522337
- 9781009522281
- 1009522280
- OCLC:
- 1427237646
- Publisher Number:
- 90101381448
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