Giorgio de Santillana

Italian-American historian of science and MIT professor, known for scholarship on Galileo and for co-authoring the mytho-astronomy work 'Hamlet's Mill'.

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  1. 1. Hamlet's Mill

    An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time

    A provocative study arguing that myths and folk tales from around the world encode advanced prehistoric astronomical knowledge—especially the precession of the equinoxes—through recurring symbolic motifs such as a cosmic mill, revolving heavens, and catastrophic sky-events; by comparing myths, iconography, and archaic texts the work contends that ancient cultures preserved and transmitted celestial science in narrative form, a thesis that has inspired debate and further interdisciplinary inquiry.

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