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Storia, mito e realtà: l’origine del pensiero scientifico per Giorgio Diaz de Santillana (2020)

Loiodice, Eleonora (Author)

Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Volume: 55
Pages: 383-398

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The multifaceted, but little-known intellectual, Giorgio de Santillana (1902-1974) devoted most of his studies to the history of science. He wrote with Federigo Enriques the volume Storia del pensiero scientifico: il mondo antico. Afterwards, he moved to the USA and became a professor at MIT, he continued to dedicate his studies to the origins of scientific thought. Indeed, de Santillana and the ethnologist Hertha von Dechend wrote the book Hamlet’s Mill (1969), in which they traced the origin of scientific thought in the various mythologies from the world. Their idea was born from the “deep unease with the dominant way of interpreting and judging traditions that are not expressed in the «language» familiar to us, namely the scientific idiom coined by the Greeks.” In many of the mythologies analysed, there are characters and events that are repeated in an almost similar way, such as the destruction of a mill: this event is read as the first representation of the Precession movement of the Equinoxes. The paper therefore aims to analyse this vision, contextualizing it in the studies of the two authors.

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