Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science

by Francesca Rochberg

Book Overview

In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the "natural world" confronts us all and always has-but Before Nature explores that almost unimaginable time when there was no such conception of "nature"-no word, reference, or sense for it.

Before the concept of nature formed over the long history of European philosophy and science, our ancestors in ancient Assyria and Babylonia developed an inquiry into the world in a way...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022675958X
• ISBN13: 9780226759586
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"