Worldmaking and Cuneiform Antiquity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009522335)

Objects of knowledge exist within material, immaterial, and conceptual worlds. Once the world is conceived from the perspective of others, the physical ontology of modern science no longer functions as a standard by which to understand other orderings of reality, whether from ethnographical or historical sources. Because premodern and non-western sources attest to a plurality of sciences practiced in accordance with different ways of worldmaking from that of the modern West, their study belongs to the history of science, the philosophy of science, and the sociology of science, as well as the anthropology of science. In Worldmaking and Cuneiform Antiquity, Francesca Rochberg extends an anthropology of science to the historical world of cuneiform texts of ancient Babylonia. Exploring how Babylonian science has been understood, she proposes a new direction for scholarship by recognizing the world of ancient science, not as a less developed form of modern science, but as legitimate and real in its own right.

Author: Francesca Rochberg
ISBN-10: 1009522337
ISBN-13: 9781009522335
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/09/2025
Pages: 278
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d