Giorgio De Santillana (1902–1974)
Auteur van Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmission Through Myth
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Fotografie: Giorgio de Santillana - Late 1960's, uncredited photo at platonism347.tripod.com
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Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmission Through Myth (1969) 539 exemplaren
The origins of scientific thought; from Anaximander to Proclus, 600 B.C. to 300 A.D (1961) 93 exemplaren
Compendio di storia del pensiero scientifico : dall'antichità fino ai tempi moderni (1946) 6 exemplaren
Prologo a Parmenide e altri saggi 2 exemplaren
The Great Ages of Western Philosophy, Volume I, The Age of Belief, The Age of Adventure, the Age of Reason 2 exemplaren
Santillana Giorgio de 1 exemplaar
Fortuna di Galileo 1 exemplaar
O Papel da Arte no Renascimento Científico 1 exemplaar
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- De Santillana, Giorgio
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- 1902-05-30
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1974-06-08
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- male
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- Italy (birth)
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- Rome, Italy
- Plaats van overlijden
- Beverly, Massachusetts, USA
- Beroepen
- professor
historian and philosopher of science - Organisaties
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The Great Ages in Western Philosophy in Six Volumes… door Anne Fremantle, Editor
$150. Excellent condition.
I'm not as interested in Renaissance politics as I thought I might be, but the diagrams of the solar system according to the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems (both highly complex, with epicycles) are worth keeping the book for. I'm going to shelve it with astronomy.
Fascinating and almost hypnotising in its treatment of mythology but the theory it proposes is rather meaningless. Let's say you're right and the ancients were super smart and had knowledge that was since lost. You've shown there is no way to recover it beyond knowledge we already have and can recognise fragments of in the myths. In my opinion all this is completely unsubstantiated, seeing patterns in toast, like bible code. Still fascinating, shame about how obtuse the writing is. Would read more.… (meer)
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