TY  - CHAP
AU  - Johnson, J. Cale
AB  - In the Wake of the Compendia examines the composition of technical literature in the ancient Semitic-speaking world.  Compendia on astrology, magic, medicine, lexicography, and alchemy were composed in several languages and relate to earlier Mesopotamian models.  This volume offers new perspectives on the early history of these compendia and their subsequent transmission into later post-cuneiform compilations, curricula, and scholarly writings.
DO  - 10.1515/9781501502507-002
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006319
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135849413
KW  - early scientific thought
KW  - compilation and redaction in the ancient world
KW  - infrastructural compendia
KW  - empiricism
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/bf757d8d-b0ec-4535-9faf-75899b9f3e99/68_[9781501502507 - In the Wake of the Compendia] Introduction.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23817
PB  - De Gruyter
PP  - Berlin/Boston
PY  - 2015
SN  - 9781501510762; 9781501502521
TI  - Chapter Introduction : ‘Infrastructural Compendia’ and the Licensing of Empiricism in Mesopotamian Technical Literature
ER  - 
