Giorgio de Santillana
Giorgio Diaz de Santillana was an Italian-American philosopher and historian of science, particularly of ancient science and of the Renaissance science of Galileo Galilei. He was a Professor of the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology best known for his books The Crime of Galileo (1955) and Hamlet's Mill (1969).
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- Educated at
- Sapienza University of Rome
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- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 The Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism
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1902
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