Francesca Rochberg
Autore di The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture
Sull'Autore
Francesca Rochberg is professor of Assyriology and the history of science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Opere di Francesca Rochberg
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Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World (2003) — Collaboratore — 59 copie
Ancient Perspectives: Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome (The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr.,… (2012) — Collaboratore — 17 copie
The Scientific Enterprise in Antiquity and Middle Ages: Readings from Isis (1996) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World (Oxford Handbooks) (2018) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
The Frontiers of Ancient Science (Beitrage Zur Altertumskunde) (German, English and French Edition) (2015) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
The Adventure of the Human Intellect: Self, Society, and the Divine in Ancient World Cultures (Ancient World:… (2016) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Assyrian and Babylonian scholarly text catalogues : medicine, magic and divination (2018) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
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The book wasn't quite what I expected; basically it was less about the science and more about the contexts than I anticipated. That was something of a disappointment, but I still found it worthwhile enough to read the thing cover-to-cover.
One thing that seemed to be missing was a chapter on rationalistic (as opposed to religious) criticism of astrology; such is repeatedly mentioned, but never addressed directly.… (altro)