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Writing Science Before the Greeks A Naturalistic Analysis of the Babylonian Astronomical Treatise MUL. APIN

The Babylonian astronomical series MUL.APIN represents the crowning achievement of traditional Mesopotamian astronomy. This volume presents a new analysis of MUL.APIN from the perspective of modern cognitive science and explores the role of writing in the evolution of scientific thought.Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter One MUL.APIN -- 1.1 The Text -- 1.2 Form -- 1.3 Date of Composition -- 1.4 MUL.APIN and the Scribal Tradition -- 1.5 Sequence in MUL.APIN -- 1.5.1 Sequence: Procedural Considerations -- 1.6 Mesopotamians and Moderns -- 1.7 Analytic Considerations: Why We Chose MUL.APIN -- 1.8 Conclusion -- Chapter Two Writing and Conceptual Change -- 2.1 The Cuneiform Scribal Tradition -- 2.1.1 The Cuneiform Lists and Conceptions of Language -- 2.2 Writing, Cognition, and Culture -- 2.2.1 Literacy and the Brain -- 2.2.2 Naturalistic Approaches -- 2.2.3 Cognitive Evolution -- 2.2.4 Cultural Variation -- 2.2.5 Cultural Transmission -- 2.3 Writing and Conceptual Change -- 2.3.1 Writing and Rationality -- 2.3.2 The Greeks and the "Great Divide" -- 2.3.3 Moderns, Media, and Materialism -- 2.3.4 Pragmatics and the Uses of Writing -- 2.3.5 Permanence, Memory, and the Archival Uses of Texts -- 2.4 A Model of Writing and Conceptual Change -- 2.4.1 Writing and Cultural Transmission -- 2.4.2 Writing as Communication -- 2.4.3 Writing Recalibrates Inferential Environments -- 2.4.4 Writing and Rationality -- 2.5 Conclusion: Summary of Pre-Analytic Assumptions -- Chapter Three Terms of Analysis -- 3.1 The Language of Space and Time -- 3.1.1 The Language of Space -- 3.1.2 Coordinating Systems or Frames of Reference -- 3.1.3 The Language of Time -- 3.2 Deixis, Indexical Expressions, and Context -- 3.3 Categories and Concepts -- 3.3.1 Kinds of Concepts -- 3.4 Naming -- 3.5 Definition -- 3.5.1 Stipulative Definition -- 3.6 Assumptions and Axioms -- 3.7 Rhetorical Concerns -- Chapter Four MUL.APIN: Text and Analysis -- A Note on the Form of the Akkadian Text of MUL.APIN -- 4.1 Section a, MUL.APIN I i 1-ii 35 -- 4.1.1 Astronomical Content -- 4.1.2 Textual Form -- 4.1.3 Translated Text4.1.4 Analysis -- 4.1.4.1 Discourse Forms: List Structure -- 4.1.4.2 Discourse Forms: Time and Space -- 4.1.4.3 Minor Textual Form: The Planets -- 4.1.5 Categories -- 4.2 Sections b-d, MUL.APIN I ii 36-I iii 48 -- 4.2.1 Astronomical Content -- 4.2.2 Textual Form -- 4.2.3 Translated Text -- 4.2.4 Analysis -- 4.2.4.1 Discourse Forms: Time and Space -- 4.2.4.1.1 Discourse Forms: Section b (MUL.APIN I ii 36-I iii 12) -- 4.2.4.1.2 Discourse Forms: Section c (MUL.APIN I iii 13-I iii 33) -- 4.2.4.1.3 Discourse Forms: Section d (MUL.APIN I iii 34-I iii 48) -- 4.2.4.1.4 Minor Textual Form in Section b -- 4.2.5 Categories -- 4.3 Intermediate Section, MUL.APIN I iii 49-50 -- 4.3.1 Astronomical Content -- 4.3.2 Translated Text -- 4.3.3 Analysis -- 4.3.3.1 Discourse Forms: Time and Space, Generalized Description -- 4.3.3.2 Rhetorical Device: Proto-Axioms -- 4.3.3.3 Rhetorical Function: Transition -- 4.3.4 Categories -- 4.4 Section e, MUL.APIN I iv 1-30 -- 4.4.1 Subsection e-1, MUL.APIN I iv 1-9 -- 4.4.1.1 Astronomical Content -- 4.4.1.2 Textual Form -- 4.4.1.3 Translated Text -- 4.4.1.4 Analysis -- 4.4.1.4.1 Rhetorical Devices: Introduction and Conclusion -- 4.4.1.4.2 Rhetorical Devices: Direct Address -- 4.4.1.4.3 Discourse Devices: Continuous Discourse -- 4.4.1.4.4 Discourse Forms: Space and Time, Multiple Marking -- 4.4.1.4.5 Generalizations -- 4.4.1.5 Categories -- 4.4.2 Subsection e-2, MUL.APIN I iv 10-30 -- 4.4.2.1 Astronomical Content -- 4.4.2.2 Textual Form -- 4.4.2.3 Translated Text -- 4.4.2.4 Analysis -- 4.4.2.4.1 Rhetorical Devices: Introduction, Direct Address -- 4.4.2.4.2 Dividing Lines -- 4.4.2.4.3 Discourse Forms: Space and Time, Multiple Marking -- 4.4.2.4.4 Generalizations -- 4.4.2.5 Categories -- 4.5 Section f, MUL.APIN I iv 31-II i 8 -- 4.5.1 Subsection f-1, MUL.APIN I iv 31-39 -- 4.5.1.1 Astronomical Content -- 4.5.1.2 Textual Form4.5.1.3 Translated Text -- 4.5.1.4 Analysis -- 4.5.1.4.1 Rhetorical Devices: Introduction and Conclusion -- 4.5.1.4.2 Discourse Forms: Time and Space, Complex Descriptions -- 4.5.1.4.3 Generalizations -- 4.5.1.5 Categories -- 4.5.2 Subsection f-2, MUL.APIN II i 1-8 -- 4.5.2.1 Astronomical Content -- 4.5.2.2 Textual Form -- 4.5.2.3 Translated Text -- 4.5.2.4 Analysis -- 4.5.2.4.1 Rhetorical Devices: Conclusion -- 4.5.2.4.2 Discourse Forms: Space and Time -- 4.5.2.4.3 Generalizations -- 4.5.2.5 Categories -- 4.6 Section g, MUL.APIN II i 9-24 -- 4.6.1 Astronomical Content -- 4.6.2 Textual Form -- 4.6.3 Translated Text -- 4.6.4 Analysis -- 4.6.4.1 Rhetorical Devices: Conclusion, Direct Address -- 4.6.4.2 Discourse Forms: Space and Time -- 4.6.4.2.1 Complexity -- 4.6.4.2.2 Generalized Expressions -- 4.6.4.3 Dividing Lines -- 4.6.5 Categories -- 4.7 Sections h and i, MUL.APIN II i 25-71 -- plus Gap A 1-7, from Section j -- 4.7.1 Subsection h-i-1, MUL.APIN II i 25-37 -- 4.7.1.1 Astronomical Content -- 4.7.1.2 Textual Form -- 4.7.1.3 Translated Text -- 4.7.1.4 Analysis -- 4.7.1.4.1 Rhetorical Devices: Direct Address -- 4.7.1.4.2 Discourse Forms: Space and Time -- 4.7.1.4.3 Generalizations -- 4.7.1.5 Categories -- 4.7.2 Subsection h-i-2, MUL.APIN II i 38-43 -- 4.7.2.1 Astronomical Content -- 4.7.2.2 Textual Form -- 4.7.2.3 Translated Text -- 4.7.2.4 Analysis -- 4.7.2.4.1 Rhetorical Devices: Conclusion, Direct Address -- 4.7.2.4.2 Discourse Forms: Space and Time -- 4.7.2.4.3 Generalizations -- 4.7.2.5 Categories -- 4.7.3 Subsection h-i-3, MUL.APIN II i 44-67 -- 4.7.3.1 Astronomical Content -- 4.7.3.2 Textual Form -- 4.7.3.3 Translated Text -- 4.7.3.4 Analysis -- 4.7.3.4.1 Discourse Forms: Complexity -- 4.7.3.4.2 Discourse Forms: Space and Time -- 4.7.3.4.3 Generalizations -- 4.7.3.5 Categories -- 4.7.3.6 Minor Textual Form: Description of Mercury4.7.4 Subsection h-i-4, MUL.APIN II i 68-71 -- 4.7.4.1 Astronomical Content -- 4.7.4.2 Textual Form -- 4.7.4.3 Translated Text -- 4.7.4.4 Analysis -- 4.7.4.4.1 Rhetorical Devices: Direct Address, Procedures -- 4.7.4.4.2 Discourse Forms: Space and Time -- 4.7.4.4.3 Generalizations -- 4.7.4.5 Categories -- 4.7.5 Subsection j-1, Gap A 1-7 -- 4.7.5.1 Astronomical Content -- 4.7.5.2 Textual Form -- 4.7.5.3 Translated Text -- 4.7.5.4 Analysis -- 4.7.5.4.1 Discourse Forms: Space and Time -- 4.7.5.4.2 Rhetorical Devices -- 4.7.5.4.3 Generalizations -- 4.8 Subsections j-2 and j-3, MUL.APIN II Gap A8-II ii 20 -- 4.8.1 Subsection j-2, MUL.APIN II Gap A8-II ii 17 -- 4.8.1.1 Astronomical Content -- 4.8.1.2 Textual Form -- 4.8.1.3 Translated Text -- 4.8.1.4 Analysis -- 4.8.1.4.1 Discourse Forms: Time and Space -- 4.8.1.4.2 Rhetorical Devices: Summary Statement, Direct Address -- 4.8.1.4.3 Generalizations: Decision Rules Expressed as Conditionals -- 4.8.1.4.4 Rhetorical Devices: Mathematical Procedure -- 4.8.1.5 Categories -- 4.8.2 Subsection j-3, MUL.APIN II ii 18-20 -- 4.8.2.1 Content and Analysis -- 4.8.2.2 Translated Text -- 4.9 Section k, MUL.APIN II ii 21-42 -- 4.9.1 Astronomical Content -- 4.9.2 Textual Form -- 4.9.3 Translated Text -- 4.9.4 Analysis -- 4.9.4.1 Rhetorical Device: Table-Like Format -- 4.9.4.2 Rhetorical Devices: Direct Address, Summary Statement -- 4.9.5 Categories -- 4.10 Section L, MUL.APIN II ii 43-II iii 15 -- 4.10.1 Astronomical Content -- 4.10.2 Textual Form -- 4.10.3 Translated Text -- 4.10.4 Analysis -- 4.10.4.1 Discourse Forms: Time and Space -- 4.10.4.2 Rhetorical Devices: Direct Address, Conclusion, Axiom -- 4.10.5 Categories -- 4.11 Section m, MUL.APIN II iii 16-iv 12 -- 4.11.1 Content -- 4.11.2 Textual Form -- 4.11.3 Translated Text -- 4.11.4 Analysis -- 4.11.4.1 Rhetorical Devices: Omens -- Chapter Five Summary of Results5.1 The Language of Space and Time -- 5.2 Rhetorical Features: Introductions and Conclusions -- 5.3 Rhetorical Features: Direct Address -- 5.4 Natural Categories: An Emerging Taxonomy of Stars -- 5.5 Procedures and Procedural Categories -- 5.6 Definitions and Stipulation: Non-Natural Categories -- 5.7 Ancient Forms of Text Marking: DIŠ and Horizontal Rulings -- 5.8 Generalizations, Axioms, and Assumptions -- Chapter Six Discussion: MUL.APIN, Writing, and Science -- 6.1 A Developmental Progression -- 6.2 Applying an Inferential Model to MUL.APIN -- 6.2.1 Textual Evidence for Recalibration: Rhetorical-Indexical Clusters -- 6.2.2 Summary: Rhetorical-Indexical Clusters -- 6.3 Textual Indicators of Logic and Rational Thought in MUL.APIN -- 6.3.1 An Incipient Taxonomy of Stars -- 6.3.2 Generalizations -- 6.3.3 Generalizations and the Text Marker DIŠ -- 6.3.4 Definitions: Content and Form -- 6.3.5 Summary: Categories, Generalizations, and Definition -- Chapter Seven Further Thoughts: The Cognitive Function of Writing in MUL.APIN -- 7.1 Writing and Dual-Process Models of Cognition -- 7.2 The Mind's Confrontation with Its Own Invention -- 7.3 Lists, Science, and Domains of Knowledge -- 7.4 A Cognitive Influence on the Organization of the Lists -- 7.5 Listwissenschaft: But Is It Science? -- 7.6 Star Lists and the Extended Function of Writing in MUL.APIN -- 7.7 Summary -- Chapter Eight A Final Word: From List to Axiom -- 8.1 MUL.APIN and the Technical Handbook Tradition -- 8.2 The Omens and Anomalous Text -- 8.3 MUL.APIN, Science, and Rationality -- Bibliography -- Appendix One The Translated Text of MUL.APIN -- Appendix Two The Babylonian Month-Names -- Appendix Three Tablet and Line Correspondences with Hunger-Pingree -- Subject Index -- Author Index -- Akkadian and Sumerian Word Index -- MUL.APIN Text Citation IndexThe Babylonian astronomical series MUL.APIN represents the crowning achievement of traditional Mesopotamian astronomy. This volume presents a new analysis of MUL.APIN from the perspective of modern cognitive science and explores the role of writing in the evolution of scientific thought.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries