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In the Wake of the Compendia - Infrastructural Contexts and the Licensing of Empiricism in Ancient and Medieval Mesopotamia (Hardcover, Digital original)
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In the Wake of the Compendia - Infrastructural Contexts and the Licensing of Empiricism in Ancient and Medieval Mesopotamia (Hardcover, Digital original)
Series: Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures
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In the Wake of the Compendia presents papers that examine the
history of technical compendia as they moved between institutions
and societies in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia. This volume
offers new perspectives on the development and transmission of
technical compilations, looking especially at the relationship
between empirical knowledge and textual transmission in early
scientific thinking. The eleven contributions to the volume derive
from a panel held at the American Oriental Society in 2013 and
cover more than three millennia of historical development, ranging
from Babylonian medicine and astronomy to the persistence of
Mesopotamian lore in Syriac and Arabic meditations on the
properties of animals. The volume also includes major contributions
on the history of Mesopotamian "rationality," epistemic labels for
tested and tried remedies, and the development of depersonalized
case histories in Babylonian therapeutic compendia. Together, these
studies offer an overview of several important moments in the
development of non-Western scientific thinking and a significant
contribution to our understanding of how traditions of technical
knowledge were produced and transmitted in the ancient world.
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