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Can I read Reflections on Men and Ideas on EtoBox?
Reflections on Men and Ideas by Giorgio De Santillana is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Reflections on Men and Ideas about?
GIORGIO DE SANTILLANA IS-IF ONE COULD CONFINE SO AGILE Amind within any definition—a historian of scientific ideas. Hehas written on the origin of such ideas, and his best-known bookdescribes, in a novel way, one of the most famous episodes intheir history; the long-delayed frontal collision, in 1633, betweenthe “ new ” conception of a heliocentric system, which had beenadvanced a century before by Copernicus, and the “old” geo¬centric system which was approved by the Church.
Who reads Reflections on Men and Ideas?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Giorgio De Santillana
- Publisher
- MIT Press (MA)
- Published
- 1968
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262040167
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, Philosophy, Major Branches Of Philosophical Study