Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East

Sofie Schiodt, Amber Jacob, Kim Ryholt

Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Format
Hardback
Publisher
New York University Press
Country
United States
Published
21 August 2023
Pages
458
ISBN
9781479823130

Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East

Sofie Schiodt, Amber Jacob, Kim Ryholt

Comparative insights on astronomy, divination, and medicine from ancient texts

Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East presents a collection of articles by leading scholars on scientific practices in the ancient world, with emphasis on the fields of medicine, astronomy, astrology, and other forms of divination. The essays engage with a wide variety of textual sources in many different languages and scripts from Egypt and the Near East spanning more than a millennium, including some texts that are edited and discussed here for the first time. The contributors to this volume were tasked with approaching their texts not only as specialists, but also from a cross-cultural perspective, and the resulting body of work reveals new and exciting evidence for the transfer of scientific knowledge across cultural borders in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East.

This book will be of interest primarily to specialists in the history of medicine, science, divination, and magic, as well as to papyrologists, Egyptologists, and Assyriologists.

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