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

ISBN-13: 9780879232153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 505 str.

Giorgio De Santillana; Hertha Von Dechend

Opis

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.