Chapter Introduction 'Infrastructural Compendia' and the Licensing of Empiricism in Mesopotamian Technical Literature

• Main Author: Johnson, J. Cale (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2015
• Subjects: Middle Eastern history; Christianity; Ancient religions & mythologies; early scientific thought; compilation and redaction in the ancient world; infrastructural compendia; empiricism
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

In the Wake of the Compendia examines the composition of technical literature in the ancient Semitic-speaking world. Compendia on astrology, magic, medicine, lexicography, and alchemy were composed in several languages and relate to earlier Mesopotamian models. This volume offers new perspectives...