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The Dark Abyss of Time - The History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vico (Paperback, New edition)
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The Dark Abyss of Time - The History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vico (Paperback, New edition)
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"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
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