Chapter 20 Clever Machines and the Gods Who Make Them

The Antikythera Mechanism and the Ancient Imagination

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"The Scaffolding of Our Thoughts"

Essays on Assyriology and the History of Science in Honor of Francesca Rochberg

Series:  Ancient Magic and Divination, Volume: 13
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Brill
Print Publication Date:
12 Mar 2018
Front Matter
Chapter 1 Where Next for “Ancient Science”?
Chapter 2 Crow Omens in Mesopotamia
Chapter 3 Old Signs in New Dress? On the Meaning of Inanna’s Symbol as Sign and “Presence” in Early Babylonian Divination
Chapter 4 Material, Constellation, Image, God: The Fate of the Chosen Bull According to kar 50 and Duplicates
Chapter 5 A Late Babylonian Compilation Concerning Ritual Timing and Materia Medica
Chapter 6 bm 40187: A Birthnote for Two Named Individuals
Chapter 7 Converging Fortunes—Links between Celestial and Intestinal Divination
Chapter 8 Sumerian Divination
Chapter 9 The Form and History of a Babylonian Prayer to Nabû
Chapter 10 Translation in The Elevation of Ištar
Chapter 11 Judean Scribalism, Documentary Epistemology, and the Name ישׂראל
Chapter 12 Dating eae. When was the Astrological Series Enūma Anu Ellil Created?
Chapter 13 Bricoleurs in Babylonia: The Scribes of Enūma Anu Enlil
Chapter 14 The Date of the Accession of Nabonidus to the Throne of Babylon: A Reappraisal of the Evidence
Chapter 15 Intercalary Months in Achaemenid Elamite Administrative Documents from Persepolis
Chapter 16 The Importance of Experts: Agents in the Transfer of Astral Knowledge between Hellenistic Mesopotamia and the Greek-speaking World
Chapter 17 Diodorus on the Chaldeans
Chapter 18 Observing Eclipses: An Optical Question in Problemata 15.11
Chapter 19 Chaldeans on the Nile: Two Egyptian Astronomical Procedure Texts with Babylonian Systems A1 and A2 for Mercury

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