This book will be of particular interest to those concerned with the early history of science.
"In the Path of the Moon" offers a collection of essays concerning Babylonian celestial divination.
With Before Nature, Francesca Rochberg explores that Assyro-Babylonian knowledge tradition and shows how it relates to the entire history of science.
This is the first complete edition of the extant cuneiform horoscopes--with transcription and philological and astronomical commentary.
Text, maps, and illustrations present the history of the world from ancient times to the present day. Includes a chronology of important dates, a glossary, and reference tables.
In Worldmaking and Cuneiform Antiquity, Francesca Rochberg extends an anthropology of science to the historical world of cuneiform texts of ancient Babylonia.