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

Giorgio de Santillana, Hertha von Dechend

ISBN 10: 0876450087 / ISBN 13: 9780876450086

Published by Gambit November 1969, 1969

About this Item

used hardcover in dust jacket. jacket is somewhat worn about the edges, with a number of small chips and tears at the extremeties, though still largely intact. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Seller Inventory # 1533422

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time
• Publisher: Gambit November 1969
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0876450087
• ISBN 13: 9780876450086
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: FIRST / VG-
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • MYTH (general and studies)

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Synopsis

Ever since the Greeks coined the language we commonly use for scientific description, mythology and 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, and what they did are but ciphers for celestial activity, a language for the perpetuation of complex astronomical data? Drawing on scientific data, historical and literary sources, the authors argue that our myths are the remains of a preliterate astronomy, an exacting science whose power and accuracy were suppressed and 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 and transmission of knowledge. This is a truly seminal and original thesis, a book that should be read by anyone interested in science, myth, and the interactions between the two.