Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

10 Rochberg gesting that while their heavens, too, were “irreducibly different from ours,” their investigations were nonetheless ...

Natural Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia 11 phrates. The extant written record from ancient Mesopotamia is made up of cuneiform ...

12 Rochberg following series of topics. A description of sources and their contents in the fi rst section will highlight three a ...

Natural Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia 13 from the Nineveh library holdings, which, it appears, are an excellent representativ ...

14 Rochberg the operation of two readily recognizable binary classifi cations: personal and public, earthly and heavenly. Beyond ...

Natural Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia 15 his special text corpus was designated ba ̄rûtu, an abstract noun also used as a ter ...

16 Rochberg of Tablets 1–22. Solar phenomena (such as coronas, parhelia, and eclipses) are found in Tablets 23–36. Tablets 37–49 ...

Natural Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia 17 wide chronological as well as cultural gaps between these groups, as well as a great ...

18 Rochberg Šamaš; he took all the celestial and terrestrial portents on himself, and ruled all the countries. The king, my lord ...

Natural Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia 19 utilized by Ptolemy in the Almagest (for example, those of Mercury in Almagest 9.7). ...

20 Rochberg will have sons and daughters.” The inclusion of such apodoses makes it appear as though the Babylonians viewed the s ...

Natural Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia 21 That is, the gods were thought to communicate with humankind through the behavior of ...

22 Rochberg out the year. This arithmetic scheme is linear because it is characterized by a difference sequence of fi rst order, ...

Natural Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia 23 fi rst invisibilities were ominous, as were the planets in retrograde, but not their ...

24 Rochberg tables are designed for computation of positions for synodic appearances, not the appearances on arbitrary dates. In ...

Natural Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia 25 source for Enu ̄ma Anu Enlil Tablet 22, celestial signs came into being with the cre ...

26 Rochberg your utterance let the star be destroyed, command again and let the star be restored.” The deliberate disruption of ...

Natural Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia 27 which do not vary from one copy to another, the colophons are unique and within cert ...

28 Rochberg omens, medical texts, and astronomical texts, all of which genres belong to tupšarru ̄tu “scholarship.”^37 While th ...

Natural Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia 29 The sage Enmeduranki in turn shared with “the men of Nippur, Sip- par, and Babylon” ...