Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time

De Santillana, Giorgio & Hertha Von Dechend

ISBN 10: 0333113284 / ISBN 13: 9780333113288

Published by Macmillan, 1969

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Near fine. Hardcover and dust jacket. Jacket clipped. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xiii, 505 p., ill., 23 cm. Contradicting many current notions about cultural evolution, this exploratory book investigates the origins of human knowledge in the archaic, preliterate world.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333113284
• ISBN 13: 9780333113288
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illustrated
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 25 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mythology

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Synopsis

Ever since the Greeks coined the language we commonly use for scientific description, mythology & science have developed separately. But what came before the Greeks? What if we could prove that all myths have one common origin in a celestial cosmology? What if the gods, the places they lived & what they did are but ciphers for celestial activity, a language for the perpetuation of complex astronomical data? Drawing on scientific data, historical & literary sources, the authors argue that our myths are the remains of a preliterate astronomy, an exacting science whose power & accuracy were suppressed & then forgotten by an emergent Greco-Roman world view. This fascinating book throws into doubt the self-congratulatory assumptions of Western science about the unfolding development & transmission of knowledge. This is a truly seminal & original thesis, a book that should be read by anyone interested in science, myth & the interactions between the two.