Before nature : cuneiform knowledge and the history of science / Francesca Rochberg.
Rochberg, Francesca, 1952- author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2016
Q125 .R716 2016
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Title Before nature : cuneiform knowledge and the history of science / Francesca Rochberg.
Author Rochberg, Francesca, 1952- author.
ISBN 9780226406275 (electronic bk.)
022640627X (electronic bk.)
9780226406138
022640613X
Published Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource ( pages.)
Call Number Q125 .R716 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 509.35
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: the ancient Near East, science, and nature
Historiography
Science and nature
Old ideas about myth and science
Cuneiform knowledge and its interpretive framework
On knowledge among cuneiform scholars
A cuneiform modality of order
Rationality, analogy, and law
The Babylonians and the rational
Causality and world order
The cuneiform world of observation, prediction, and explanation
Observation of astral phenomena
Prediction and explanation in cuneiform scholarship
Conclusion.

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