Astronomy, Ṭupšarrūtu, and Knowledge in the Cuneiform World

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_19400
dc.contributor.author	Rochberg Francesca
dc.title	Astronomy, Ṭupšarrūtu, and Knowledge in the Cuneiform World
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This paper aims to critique a historiography of science that sees Greek science as exemplary. It discusses the entry of Babylonian astronomy into the history of science and defines the cuneiform scribal-scholarly knowledge termed ṭupšarrūtu as a basis for understanding the scope and character of cuneiform science without comparison to Greek or later sciences.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antiquity Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi orientali
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-11-30
dc.dateAccepted	2024-03-04
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-11-07
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-776-0/astronomy-tupsarrutu-and-knowledge-in-the-cuneifor/
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8828
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9344
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-777-7
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-776-0
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Astronomy
dc.subject	Cuneiform world
dc.subject	Episteme
dc.subject	Nēmequ
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Scientia
dc.subject	Tupšarrūtu

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Astronomy, Ṭupšarrūtu, and Knowledge in the Cuneiform World

Francesca Rochberg University of California, Berkeley, USA

abstract

This paper aims to critique a historiography of science that sees Greek science as exemplary. It discusses the entry of Babylonian astronomy into the history of science and defines the cuneiform scribal-scholarly knowledge termed ṭupšarrūtu as a basis for understanding the scope and character of cuneiform science without comparison to Greek or later sciences.

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Nov. 30, 2023

Accepted

March 4, 2024

Submitted

Nov. 7, 2023

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978-88-6969-777-7

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978-88-6969-776-0

Keywords: Episteme • Nēmequ • Science • Astronomy • Scientia • Cuneiform world • Tupšarrūtu

Copyright: © 2023 Francesca Rochberg. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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