Francesca Rochberg
Francesca Rochberg , also Rochberg-Halton, (born May 8, 1952 in Philadelphia ) is an American science historian and Assyriologist . She is known for research into Babylonian astronomy and astrology .
Rochberg studied at the University of Pennsylvania (Bachelor in 1974) and received his PhD in 1980 from the University of Chicago . She was a professor at the University of California, Riverside , and is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley . In 2010 she was visiting professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
In 2007 she was at the Institute for Advanced Study . In 2006 she was a Fellow of Magdalen College at Oxford University .
In 1982 she became a MacArthur Fellow . In 1993 she was a Guggenheim Fellow. She has been a member of the American Philosophical Society since 2008 .
She also wrote a novel Gone Crazy Out There (2008).
Fonts
- Babylonian Horoscopes , American Philosophical Society 1998
- In the path of moon: babylonian celestial divination and its legacy , Brill 2009
- The heavenly writing: divination, horoscopy and astronomy in mesopotamian writing , Cambridge University Press 2004
- Mesopotamian cosmology in Norriss Hetherington (Editor) Encyclopedia of Cosmology , Garland Publ. 1993
- Aspects of babylonian celestial divination: The lunar eclipse tablets of Enuma Anu Enlil , Archiv für Orientforschung, Supplement 22, 1988
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| SURNAME | Rochberg, Francesca |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian of science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |