Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmissions Through Myth - Tapa blanda

De Santillana, Giorgio; Von Dechend, Hertha

 
9780879232153: Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmissions Through Myth
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ISBN 10: 0879232153 ISBN 13: 9780879232153
Editorial: David R. Godine Publisher Inc, 2015

Sinopsis

A truly seminal and original thesis, this is a book that should be read by anyone interested in science, myth, and the interactions between the two. In this classic work of scientific and philosophical inquiry, the authors track world myths to a common origin in early man's descriptions of cosmological activity, arguing that these remnants of ancient astronomy, suppressed by the Greeks and Romans and then forgotten, were really a form of pre-literate science. Myth became the synapse by which science was transmitted. Their truly original thesis challenges basic assumptions of Western science and theories about the transmission of knowledge.

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Acerca del autor

Giorgio de Santillana was born in Rome and moved to the United States in 1936. In 1942, he became an Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he would spend the remainder of his academic career. Hertha Von Dechend was born in Heidelberg in 1915. She began her career as an anthropologist in 1934 at the Frobenius Institute. Between 1960 and 1966, she regularly taught and researched at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

De la contraportada

Ever since the Greeks coined the language we commonly use for scientific description, mythology and science have developed separately. But what came before the Greeks? What if we could prove that all myths have one common origin in a celestial cosmology? What if the gods, the places they lived, and what they did are but ciphers for celestial activity, a language for the perpetuation of complex astronomical data? Drawing on scientific data, historical and literary sources, the authors argue that our myths are the remains of a preliterate astronomy, an exacting science whose power and accuracy were suppressed and then forgotten by an emergent Greco-Roman world view. This fascinating book throws into doubt the self-congratulatory assumptions of Western science about the unfolding development and transmission of knowledge. This is a truly seminal and original thesis, a book that should be read by anyone interested in science, myth, and the interactions between the two.

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Editorial
David R. Godine Publisher Inc
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0879232153
ISBN 13 
9780879232153
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
505
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