弗朗西斯卡-罗克伯格 亚述学家和科学史学家

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Francesca Rochberg
Assyriologist and Historian of Science | Class of 1982
Title
Assyriologist and Historian of Science
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Age
30 at time of award
Area of Focus
Middle Eastern History, History of Science and Technology
Published August 1, 1982
ABOUT FRANCESCA'S WORK
Francesca Rochberg is an assyriologist who focuses on the emergence of science in antiquity.

Rochberg studies Babylonian astronomy and astrology, and their dissemination in ancient Greece.  In her study of astrological texts of the second millennium B.C., she explores the nature of Babylonian astronomical inquiry, and the place of astronomy in Mesopotamian culture.  Rochberg has published the books, Aspects of Babylonian Celestial Divination: The Lunar Eclipse Omens of Enuma Anu Enlil (1987), Babylonian Horoscopes (1998), and The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture (2004).

BIOGRAPHY
Rochberg is a professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Riverside.  She was named the Michael Polanyi Visiting Lecturer of the History and Philosophy of Natural Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1996.  She was a visiting scholar in the Department of the History of Science at Yale University (1989).  Before that, she was at the University of Notre Dame in the Department of History, and previously was a research associate at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, where she was on the staff of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (1976-82).

Rochberg received a B.A. (1974) from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. (1980) from the University of Chicago.

RECENT NEWS
Francesca Rochberg is Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Office for the History of Science and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow (1993), a visiting fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford (2006), and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2007), and is a senior fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. Her book, Babylonian Horoscopes (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 88, Pt.1, American Philosophical Society, 1998) won the 1999 John Frederick Lewis Award from the American Philosophical Society. Most recently, she published In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy (E.J. Brill, 2010) and Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science (forthcoming, 2015).

Updated July 2015



弗朗西斯卡-罗克伯格
亚述学家和科学史学家 - 1982级
职称
亚述学家和科学史家
工作地点
芝加哥，伊利诺伊州
年龄
获奖时为30岁
关注领域
中东历史, 科学和技术史
发表于1982年8月1日
关于弗兰西斯卡的工作
弗朗西斯卡-罗克伯格是一位亚述学家，主要研究古代科学的出现。

罗克伯格研究巴比伦的天文学和占星术，以及它们在古希腊的传播。 在她对公元前二千年的占星术文本的研究中，她探索了巴比伦天文学研究的性质，以及天文学在美索不达米亚文化中的地位。 罗克伯格已经出版了《巴比伦天体占卜的各个方面》一书。Enuma Anu Enlil的月食预言》（1987年）、《巴比伦的星座》（1998年）和《天上的文字》。美索不达米亚文化中的占卜、占星术和天文学（2004）。

个人简历
罗克伯格是加州大学河滨分校历史系的一名教授。 1996年，她被任命为北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校自然科学历史和哲学的迈克尔-波兰尼客座讲师。 她曾在耶鲁大学科学史系担任访问学者（1989年）。 在此之前，她在圣母大学历史系工作，之前是芝加哥大学东方研究所的助理研究员，她是芝加哥亚述词典的工作人员（1976-82）。

罗克伯格获得了宾夕法尼亚大学的学士学位（1974年）和芝加哥大学的博士学位（1980年）。

最近的新闻
弗朗西斯卡-罗克伯格是加州大学伯克利分校近东研究系和科技史办公室的凯瑟琳和威廉-L-马基斯特雷蒂特聘教授。她曾是古根海姆研究员（1993年）、牛津大学马格达伦学院的访问学者（2006年）和普林斯顿高等研究所的成员（2007年），是纽约大学古代世界研究所的高级研究员。她的书《巴比伦星座》（Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 88, Pt.1, American Philosophical Society, 1998）赢得了美国哲学学会1999年的John Frederick Lewis奖。最近，她出版了《在月亮的道路上》。Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy (E.J. Brill, 2010) 和 Before Nature: 楔形文字知识与科学史》（即将出版，2015年）。

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