Chapter Encyclopaedias and Commentaries

This paper looks at how empirical knowledge was assembled and interpreted in Babylonian academies and investigates two Neo-Assyrian plant lists: KADP 2 and KADP 4. These two lists are not simple collections of scholastic information but represent examples of theoretical botany and pharmacology. It i...

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Main Author: Markham, J. Geller (auth)
Other Authors: Johnson, J. Cale (Editor)
Format: eBook
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2015
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