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Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time
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Giorgio De Santillana, Hertha Von Dechend
A seminal work of scientific and philosophical exploration. It argues that our myths are remnants of an ancient astronomy suppressed by the Greeks and Romans and later forgotten. On the way it challenges basic assumptions of Western science and our theories of how ancient knowledge was passed along.
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The Crime of Galileo
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"In the gallery of what might be called the martyrs of thought, the image of Galileo recanting before the Italian Inquisition stirs the minds of educated modern men second only to the picture of Socrates drinking the Hemlock. That image of Galileo is out of focus . . . because it has been distorted by three centuries of rationalist prejudice and ...
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The crime of Galileo
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Hamlet's Mill
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Reflections on Men and Ideas
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"Contents: " "Man Without Letters." Newton, the Enigma. Paolo Toscanelli and His Friends. Alessandro Volta. Galileo Today. Necessity, Contingency, and Natural Law. Prologue to Parmenides. Galileo and Oppenheimer. The Role of Art in the Scientific Renaissance. The Italian Novel Today--A Note on Realism. The Seventeenth-Century Legacy: Our Mirror of ...
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The Age of Adventure
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The Dawn of Astronomy: A Study of Temple Worship and Mythology of the Ancient Egyptians
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J Norman Lockyer, Giorgio De Santillana (Preface by)
This celebrated study -- derived from Lockyer's belief that ancient Egyptian monuments were constructed "in strict relation to the stars" -- explores the relationship between astronomy and architecture in the age of the pharaohs. The author addresses one of the many points already extensively investigated by Egyptologists: the chronology of the ...
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The age of adventure; the Renaissance philosophers, selected, with introd. and interpretive commentary.
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The age of adventure; the Renaissance philosophers
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The development of rationalism and empiricism
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Giorgio De Santillana, Edgar Zilsel
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Age of Adventure
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The origins of scientific thought; from Anaximander to Proclus, 600 B.C. to 300 A.D.
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