The Origins of Vico

Vika was not very interested in science. He mentions galileo, but he has no idea that galileo had made a genuine revolutionin hy subject. His general attitude is of a man brought up by pious priests who looks with suspicion, not to say horror, upon the advance of materialistic science. This is somat dimpression ist. It is true that vike doesn't draw the line between what might be called true knowledge and inferior forms of knowledge. But the whole originality of vico, such as it is, the whole burden of vico's servant, is to say that we know human history ourselves, in a way different from that in which we