Hamlet's mill: an essay investigating the origins of human knowledge and its transmissions through myth
Auteur :
De Santillana, Giorgio / Von Dechend, Hertha
Éditeur :
David R. Godine Publisher Inc
ISBN :
9780879232153
Date de publication :
7 mai 2015
Dimensions :
22,6 x 14,9 x 4,0 cm
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
A work of scientific and philosophical inquiry, in which, 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.