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

• প্রধান লেখক: Johnson, J. Cale (auth)
• বিন্যাস: বৈদ্যুতিক গ্রন্থের অধ্যায়
• ভাষা: ইংরেজি
• প্রকাশিত: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2015
• বিষয়গুলি: Middle Eastern history; Christianity; Ancient religions & mythologies; early scientific thought; compilation and redaction in the ancient world; infrastructural compendia; empiricism
• অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: 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...