Giambattista Vico#Giambattista
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#Giambattista
Giambattista Vico · 1668–1744
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“While all Europe followed Descartes into mathematics and physics, one poor rhetoric teacher in Naples argued that the real "new science" was history — and it took the world a century to notice he was right.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“We can truly know only what we ourselves have made — so the world of history and culture, made by human beings, is the one great territory of knowledge that belongs to us completely.”
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