Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Dark Abyss of Time: The History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vico

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

Rossi, Paolo

Paperback

General World History

ISBN10: 0226728323
ISBN13: 9780226728322
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Sep 15 1987
Pages: 354
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.87 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
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

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

General World History

View All