The Dark Abyss of Time: The History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vico - Brossura

Rossi, Paolo

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ISBN 10: 0226728323 ISBN 13: 9780226728322

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 1987

Riassunto

"A rich historical pastiche of 17th- and 18th-century philosophy, science, and religion."—G. Y. Craig, New Scientist

"This book, by a distinguished Italian historian of philosophy, is a worthy successor to the author's important works on Francis Bacon and on technology and the arts. First published in Italian (in 1979), it now makes available to English readers some subtly wrought arguments about the ways in which geology and anthropology challenged biblical chronology and forced changes in the philosophy of history in the early modern era. . . . [Rossi] shows that the search for new answers about human origins spanned many disciplines and involved many fascinating intellects—Bacon, Bayle, Buffon, Burnet, Descartes, Hobbes, Holbach, Hooke, Hume, Hutton, Leibniz, de Maillet, Newton, Pufendorf, Spinoza, Toland, and, most especially, Vico, whose works are impressively and freshly reevaluated here."—Nina Gelbart, American Scientist

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Paolo Rossi is professor of history of philosophy at the University of Florence. In 1985 he was awarded the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society. His previous books in English includeFrancis Bacon: From Magic into Science, also published by the University of Chicago Press, andPhilosophy, Technology, and the Arts in the Early Modern Era.

Product Description:

ROSSI, P. THE DARK ABYSS OF TIME. THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND THE HISTORY OF NATIONS FROM HOOKE TO VICO [PAPERBACK]. CHICAGO, IL, 1984, xvi 338 p.,. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0226728323
• ISBN 13: 9780226728322
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 354