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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Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Joint Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt International Conferences, May 2018, Copenhagen, and September 2019, New York
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Scientific Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Joint Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt International Conferences, May 2018, Copenhagen, and September 2019, New York
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Editorial Procedure
- Introduction (S. Schiødt, A. Jacob, and K. Ryholt)
- Part 1: Medicine and Magic
- Part 2: Astronomy, Astrology, and Other Forms of Divination
- Appendices
- General Index
- Index Locorum
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