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Before Nature : Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science by Francesca Rochberg is a education title available to read on EtoBox.
What is Before Nature : Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science about?
There is nothing self-evident about nature. We tend to assume that what we call the 'natural world’ confronts us all and always has. This book is about the almost unimaginable state of relation to the world in which there was no sense of nature, no reference or word for it. Before the concept took shape--and changed shape, across the long history of European philosophy and science--for an equally long period beginning roughly in the early second millennium B.C.E., the author shows, the cuneiform
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Common subject areas: education, pedagogy.
- Author
- Francesca Rochberg
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226406138
- Category
- education
- Subjects
- History, Nature, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25