In Book I's second section, "Elements," this work's author differentiates between facts that are either universally known or the products of individual human consciousness in characterizing the true and the certain, reflecting his disdain for Descartes.
In Book I's second section, "Elements," this work's author differentiates between facts that are either universally known or the products of individual human consciousness in characterizing the true and the certain, reflecting his disdain for Descartes. Corollaries on topics from Roman history, such as the arrival of Aeneas into Latium, fill out the discussion of subjects like geography and metaphysics in sections whose titles mirror that of Book II, "Poetic Wisdom." In Book IV, this work categorizes such concepts as symbols, authority, and jurisprudence into three types each, and also expounds upon the author's division of history into ages of gods, heroes, and men governed by alternating periods of progress and regression, or corsi and ricorsi. Most notably, the author supports his theory with a lengthy discussion on the "Discovery of the True Homer." FTP, identify this work advocating a cyclical approach to history and written by Giambattista Vico.
In Book I's second section, "Elements," this work's author differentiates between facts that are either universally known or the products of individual human consciousness in characterizing the true and the certain, reflecting his disdain for Descartes.
The {New Science} or {Scienzia }{Nova}