| L'Agronomie de la Mésopotamie Antique: Analyse Du «Livre de l'Agriculture Nabatéenne» de Qûtâmä Contributor(s): El Faïz, Mohammed (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004101993 ISBN-13: 9789004101999 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $290.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Language: French Published: August 1995 Annotation: This book deals with the agronomy of ancient Mesopotamia. It relies on the original, yet hardly known, agronomic encyclopaedia: The "Book of Nabatean Agriculture" written by Q{tbmd (end of Antiquity). The three parts of the book analyze the origin of the Mesopotamian school of agriculture and its economic and agro-technical conceptions. The material is a considerable contribution to the history of the Mesopotamian agriculture. It also contains the knowledge which was basic to the establishment of the agronomic culture of Islam. Besides, the historians of agronomy could, thanks to this new material, relate the Mesopotamian contribution to the development of the science of agriculture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Interior Design - General - History | Ancient - General - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 338.109 |
| Series: Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.72" W x 9.62" (1.67 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book deals with the agronomy of ancient Mesopotamia. It relies on the original, yet hardly known, agronomic encyclopaedia: The "Book of Nabatean Agriculture" written by Q t m (end of Antiquity). The three parts of the book analyze the origin of the Mesopotamian school of agriculture and its economic and agro-technical conceptions. The material is a considerable contribution to the history of the Mesopotamian agriculture. It also contains the knowledge which was basic to the establishment of the agronomic culture of Islam. Besides, the historians of agronomy could, thanks to this new material, relate the Mesopotamian contribution to the development of the science of agriculture. |