Buch, Englisch, Band 48, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 560 g
A Naturalistic Analysis of the Babylonian Astronomical Treatise Mul.Apin
Buch, Englisch, Band 48, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 560 g
Reihe: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East
ISBN: 978-90-04-20230-6
Verlag: Brill
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, which can be dated to the seventh century BCE and which represents the crowning achievement of traditional Mesopotamian observational astronomy. Writing Science before the Greeks explores this early text from the perspective of modern cognitive science in an effort to articulate the processes underlying its composition. The analysis suggests that writing itself, through the cumulative recording of observations, played a role in the evolution of scientific thought
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Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 MUL.APIN
Chapter 2 Writing and Conceptual Change
Chapter 3 Terms of Analysis
Chapter 4 MUL.APIN Text and Analysis
Chapter 5 Summary of Results
Chapter 6 Discussion: MUL.APIN, Writing, and Science
Chapter 7 Further Thoughts: The Cognitive Functions of Writing in MUL.APIN
Chapter 8 A Final Word: From List to Axiom
Bibliographical References
Appendix I Complete translated text of MUL.APIN from Hunger & Pingree
Appendix II List of Babylonian Month-names, in Akkadian, with Hebrew equivalents and Modern equivalents
Appendix III Tablet and line correspondences with Hunger & Pingree