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11 produkter
Before Nature
Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science
Häftad, 2020
395 kr
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In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the “natural world” confronts us all and always has—but Before Nature explores that almost unimaginable time when there was no such conception of “nature”—no word, reference, or sense for it. Before the concept of nature formed over the long …
The Heavenly Writing
Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture
Häftad, 2007
737 kr
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In antiquity, the expertise of the Babylonians in matters of the heavens was legendary and the roots of both western astronomy and astrology are traceable in cuneiform tablets going back to the second and first millennia BC. The Heavenly Writing, first publsiehd in 2004, discusses the place of …
The Heavenly Writing
Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture
Inbunden, 2004
1559 kr
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In antiquity, the expertise of the Babylonians in matters of the heavens was legendary and the roots of both western astronomy and astrology are traceable in cuneiform tablets going back to the second and first millennia BC. The Heavenly Writing, first publsiehd in 2004, discusses the place of …
Babylonian Horoscopes
Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 88, Part 1)
Häftad, 1998
500 kr
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Worldmaking and Cuneiform Antiquity
An Anthropology of Science
Inbunden, 2025
1442 kr
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Objects of knowledge exist within material, immaterial, and conceptual worlds. Once the world is conceived from the perspective of others, the physical ontology of modern science no longer functions as a standard by which to understand other orderings of reality, whether from ethnographical or …
Studies in Premodern Sciences in Memory of Noel M. Swerdlow
Antiquity to the Renaissance
Inbunden, 2026
1639 kr
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This book, in memory of Noel M. Swerdlow, brings together new work by prominent historians of the ancient Near Eastern, Indian, Arabic, Hebrew, Classical, Hellenistic, Medieval and Renaissance traditions of astronomy, astrology, philosophy and chronology to expand our knowledge and understanding of …
Studies in Premodern Sciences in Memory of Noel M. Swerdlow
Antiquity to the Renaissance
E-bok, 2026
2111 kr
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This book, in memory of Noel M. Swerdlow, brings together new work by prominent historians of the ancient Near Eastern, Indian, Arabic, Hebrew, Classical, Hellenistic, Medieval and Renaissance traditions of astronomy, astrology, philosophy and chronology to expand our knowledge and understanding of …
In the Path of the Moon
Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy
Inbunden, 2010
3637 kr
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Celestial divination, in the form of omens from lunar, planetary, astral, and meteorological phenomena, was central to Mesopotamian cuneiform scholarship and science from the late second millennium BCE into the Hellenistic period. Beyond the boundaries of ancient Mesopotamia, the ideas, texts, and …
Hellenistic Astronomy
The Science in Its Contexts
Av Alan C. Bowen, Francesca Rochberg
Inbunden, 2020
3841 kr
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In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, new essays by renowned scholars address questions about what the ancient science of the heavens was in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean worlds, and the numerous contexts in which it was pursued. Together, these essays will enable readers …
