Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge And Its Transmission Through Myth

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UPC:
9780879232153
Binding:
Paperback
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Publication Date:
12/1/2014
Author:
Giorgio de Santillana;Hertha von Dechen
Language:
english
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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 preliterate 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.

A book wonderful to read and startling to contemplate. If this theory is correct, both the history of science and the reinterpretation of myths have been enriched immensely. - Washington Post Book World