Chapter Encyclopaedias and Commentaries
This paper looks at how empirical knowledge was assembled and interpreted in Babylonian academies and investigates two Neo-Assyrian plant lists: KADP 2 and KADP 4. These two lists are not simple collections of scholastic information but represent examples of theoretical botany and pharmacology. It i...
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Main Author: | Markham, J. Geller (auth) |
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Other Authors: | Johnson, J. Cale (Editor) |
Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
Language: | English |
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2015
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