The Babylonian astronomical series MUL.APIN represents the crowning achievement of traditional Mesopotamian astronomy. This volume presents a new analysis of MUL.APIN from the perspective of modern cognitive science and explores the role of writing in the evolution of scientific thought.
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Rita Watson holds the Abraham Schiffman Chair in Education at the Hebrew University and has published primarily on the relation of language and literacy to human cognitive development. Her most recent book is an edited collection on the Toronto School of Communication Theory.
Wayne Horowitz is Professor at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University, and has published extensively in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Assyriology, and Mesopotamian astronomy. His books include Mesopotamian Cosmic Geography and a new volume on the Astrolabes.
The beginnings of written science have long been associated with classical Greece. Yet in ancient Mesopotamia, highly-sophisticated scientific works in cuneiform script were in active use while Greek civilization flourished in the West. The subject of this volume is the astronomical series MUL.APIN, which can be dated to the seventh century BCE and which represents the crowning achievement of traditional Mesopotamian observational astronomy. "Writing Science before the Greeks" explores this early text from the perspective of modern cognitive science in an effort to articulate the processes underlying its composition. The analysis suggests that writing itself, through the cumulative recording of observations, played a role in the evolution of scientific thought.
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Hardcover. Condición: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. XXVI + 222 pages, hardcover, fine. - - Contents/Chapters: List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Foreword, Introduction. - - 1.) MUL.APIN: The Text. - The Form. - Date of Composition - MUL.APIN and the scribal tradition. - Sequence in MUL.APIN. - Mesopotamians and Moderns. - Anyalitic Considerations: Why We Chose MUL.APIN. - Conclusion. - - 2.) Writing and Conceptual Change: The Cuneiform Scribal Tradition. - Writing, Cognition and Culture. - Writing and Conceptual Change. - A Model of Writing and Conceptual Change. - Conclusion: Summary of Pre-Analytic Assumptions. - - 3.) Terms of Analysis: The Language of Space and Time. - Deixis, Indecical Expressions and Context. - Categories and Concepts. - Naming. - Definition. - Assumptions and Axioms. - Rhetorical Concerns. - - 4.) Text and Analysis: A Note on the Form of the Akkadian Text of MUL.APIN: Section a, MUL.APIN I i 1.ii 35 (Astronomical Content, Textual Form, Translated Text, Analysis, Categories). - Sections b-d, MUL.APIN I ii 36 > I iii 12. - Intermediate Section, MUL.APIN I iii 49-50. - Section e, MUL.APIN I iv 1-30. - Section f, MUL.APIN I iv 31 > II i 8. - Section g, MUL.APIN II i 9-24. - Sections h and i, MUL.APIN II i 25-71 plus Gap A 1-7 from Section j. - Subsections j-2 and j-3, MUL.APIN II Gap A8-II ii 20. - Section k, MUL.APIN II ii 21-42. - Section L, MUL.APIN II ii 43 > II iii 15. - Section m, MUL.APIN II iii 16 > iv 12. - - 5.) Summary of Results: The Language of Space and Time. - Rhetorical Features: Introductions and Conclusions. - Rhetorical Features: Direct Address. - Natural Categories: An Emerging Taxonomy Stars. - Procedures and Procedural Categories. - Definitions and Stipulation: Non-Natural Categories. - Ancient Forms of Text Markings: DIS and Horizontal Rulings. - Generalizations, Axioms and Assumptions. - - 6.) Discussion: MUL.APIN, Writing and Science: A Developmental Progression. - Applying an Inferential Model to MUL.APIN. - Textual Indicators of Logic and Rational Thought in MUL.APIN. - - 7.) Further Thoughts: The Cognitive Functions of Writing in MUL.APIN: Writing and Dual-Process Models of Cognition. - The Mind's Confrontation with its Own Invention. - Lists, Science and Domains of Knowledge. - A Cognitive Influence on the Organization of the Lists. - Listwissenschaft: But Is It Science? - Star lists´and the Extended Functions of Writing in MUL.APIN. - Summary. - - 8.) A Final Word: From List ot Axiom: MUL.APIN and the Technical Handbook Tradition. - The Omens and Anomalous Text. - MULAPIN, Science and Rationality. - - Bibliography. - Appendix I: The Translated Text of MUL.APIN. - Appendix II: The Babylonian Month-Names. - Appendix III: Tablet and Line Correspondences with Hunger & Pingree. - Subject Index, Author Index, Akkadian and Sumerian Word Index, MUL.APIN Text Citation Index. Nº de ref. del artículo: 02782
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