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

Name: Hamlet's Mill An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmissions Through Myth
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ISBN: 9780879232153

ISBN-10: 0879232153

ISBN-13: 9780879232153

Edition: 1977

Authors: Giorgio De Santillana, Hertha Von Dechend, Giorgio Desantillana

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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…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 1977
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Publication date: 3/24/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 505
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.90" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English