Giorgio de Santillana

Giorgio Diaz de Santillana (Rome 1902 – Beverly, Massachusetts 1974) was an Italian-American philosopher of science and historian of science, and professor at MIT.

• Isis, a professional journal of the history of science, included an obituary by friend, Professor Nathan Sivin in Volume 67 (1976), pages 439-443. An excerpt can be found online.

Bibliography

• Development of rationalism and empiricism. With Edgar Zilsel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1941. (International encyclopedia of unified science Foundations of the unity of science ; v2 no.8).
• Crime of Galileo. London: Heinemann, 1958.
• The Origins of Scientific Thought: from Anaximander to Proclus, 600 BC to 300 AD. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1961.
• Hamlet's Mill. With Hertha von Dechend (1915–2001). Boston: Gambit Inc., 1969.
• The Mentor Philosophers: The Age of Adventure: Renaissance Philosophers

Further reading

• Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia (1972). "Review of Hamlet's Mill, by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend". Journal for the History of Astronomy 3: 206–211. Bibcode 1972JHA.....3..206P.