Giorgio de Santillana

Giorgio Diaz de Santillana (* May 30, 1902 in Rome, † 1974 in Beverly, Massachusetts) was an Italian- American -born philosopher of science and historians of science.

De Santillana studied Physics in Rome ( completion 1925), Philosophy in Paris and continued until 1929 Physics in Milan. Then he was taken by the mathematician Federigo Enriques to Rome to build there as his assistant at the University, a department for the History of Science. In 1935, he taught in Paris and Brussels, and went in 1936 in the USA, where he was instructor in philosophy of science at the New School of Social Research. After lecturing at Harvard in 1941, he came to MIT, where he was an assistant professor in 1942, associate professor in 1948 and 1954 Professor of the History of Science.

De Santillana believed that the roots of Western science were already to be found in the pre-Socratics and even older, surviving only in myths times, the subject of his book with Hertha von Dechend 's "Hamlet 's Mill " (1969). Therein, the thesis will be investigated, in the myths of ancient peoples (such as the Egyptians, Greeks and Babylonians ) would be astronomical observations (such as the 26,000 -year cycle of the precession of the equinoxes ) hidden. In an article entitled " Galileo and Oppenheimer " in " The Reporter ", he moved in 1957 parallels between the McCarthy committees, on the Galileo case.

Writings

  • The Crime of Galileo. London, Heinemann, 1955, Time Life Books 1981
  • Leonardo da Vinci. 1956
  • The Origins of scientific thought from Anaximander to Proclus, 600 BC to 300 A.D. London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1961
  • Publisher: Renaissance Philosophers -the age of adventure. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1957 ( selection of writings by Renaissance philosophers of Santillana comments )
  • Reflections on Men and Ideas. MIT Press 1968
  • With Hertha von Dechend: The mill of Hamlet. An essay on myth and the frame of time. Berlin:. Kammerer and Unverzagt, 1993, ISBN 3-926763-23- X (English original: .. Hamlet 's Mill An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmission Through Myth Boston, Gambit, 1969 full text online)
  • Edgar Zilsel: Development of rationalism and empiricism. University of Chicago Press 1941
  • Federigo Enriques with: Storia del pensiero scientifico. Bologna 1932
  • Prologue to Parmenides. University of Cincinnati 1964
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