TY  - BOOK
AU  - Badalanova Geller,Florentina
AU  - Bhayro,Siam
AU  - Geller,M.J.
AU  - Johnson,J.Cale
AU  - Lehmhaus,Lennart
AU  - Ossendrijver,Mathieu
AU  - Raggetti,Lucia
AU  - Rochberg,Francesca
AU  - Steinert,Ulrike
AU  - Wee,John Z.
TI  - In the Wake of the Compendia: Infrastructural Contexts and the Licensing of Empiricism in Ancient and Medieval Mesopotamia 
T2  - Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures ,
SN  - 9781501510762
AV  - Q127.I72 I5 2015
U1  - 509.35 
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Empiricism in literature
KW  - Learning and scholarship
KW  - Iraq
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Multilingualism and literature
KW  - Reference books
KW  - Science
KW  - Scientific literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Semitic literature
KW  - Technical literature
KW  - Technology
KW  - HISTORY / Middle East / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - compilation and redaction in the ancient world
KW  - early scientific thought
KW  - empiricism
KW  - infrastructural compendia
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; Introduction --; A. The Infrastructural Compendium --; Encyclopaedias and Commentaries --; Compendia and Procedures in the Mesopotamian Astral Sciences --; Listenwissenschaft and the Encyclopedic Hermeneutics of Knowledge in Talmud and Midrash --; B. Licensing Empiricism: Replication and Authority in Mesopotamian Technical Literature --; ‘Tested’ Remedies in Mesopotamian Medical Texts --; Theory and Practice in the Syriac Book of Medicines --; The ‘Science of Properties’ and its Transmission --; Between Demonology and Hagiology --; C. The Two Paradigms: Towards a New Textual Criticism for Mesopotamian Technical Compendia --; The Babylonians and the Rational --; Phenomena in Writing --; Depersonalized Case Histories in the Babylonian Therapeutic Compendia --; Source index --; Subject index --; Word index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501502507
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501502507
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501502507/original
ER  -