The Heavenly Writing
Subtitle: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 27, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780521830102
Subjects: Astrology; History: World; Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian; History; History - General History; Mesopotamia; Middle East - General; Ancient - General; Astrology - General; History / Ancient / General; Astrology, Assyro-Babylonian
First sentence: IF SCIENCE HAS A UNIVERSAL ASPECT UNDERLYING ANY AND ALL its manifestations in human culture, then a reappraisal of the nature of scientific inquiry should pertain in some measure to modern and to Babylonian science alike.