The dark abyss of time : the history of the earth & the history of nations from Hooke to Vico / Paolo Rossi ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rossi, Paolo, 1923-2012.

Standardized Title:

Segni del tempo. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

History--Philosophy.

History.

Science--Philosophy--History.

Science.

Science--Philosophy.

Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.

Vico, Giambattista.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 338 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1984, 1987]

Summary:

"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

Notes:

Translation of: I segni del tempo.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-325) and index.

ISBN:

0226728323

9780226728322

OCLC:

28140723