Chapter Encyclopaedias and Commentaries

• Hoofdauteur: Markham, J. Geller (auth)
• Andere auteurs: Johnson, J. Cale (Redacteur)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2015
• Onderwerpen: Middle Eastern history; Christianity; Ancient religions & mythologies; early scientific thought; compilation and redaction in the ancient world; infrastructural compendia; empiricism
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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...