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.
Giorgio De Santillana Knihy
Giorgio Diaz de Santillana bol taliansko-americký filozof a historik vedy, ktorý sa venoval hlbokým otázkam vzťahu vedeckého poznania a ľudskej kultúry. Jeho práca sa sústredila na to, ako sa vedecké myslenie vyvíjalo v priebehu dejín a ako formovalo naše chápanie sveta. Skúmal prepojenie vedy so širšími filozofickými a kultúrnymi kontextmi a snažil sa odhaliť základné princípy, ktoré poháňajú ľudské bádanie. Jeho pohľad na históriu vedy nebol iba opisom udalostí, ale skôr hlbokou reflexiou o povahe poznania a jeho mieste v ľudskej existencii.
"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 clerical polemics. To refocus it clearly, within the logic of its own time...