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Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time
Hamlet's Mill An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time Author:Giorgio de Santillana, Hertha von Dechen In this classic work of scientific and philosophical inquiry, 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 preliterate science. Myth became the synapse by wh... more »ich science was transmitted. Their truly original thesis challenges basic assumptions of Western science and theories about the transmission of knowledge.« less