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Giorgio de Santillana

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American historian and philosopher

ItalyWritersLived 1902 to 1974 · aged 72
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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.

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1959The Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism
1957Guggenheim Fellowship

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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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Italy
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Lived 1902 to 1974 · aged 72
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