Keys to The new science
Subtitle: translations, commentaries, and essays
By: Giambattista Vico ; edited by Thora Ilin Bayer and Donald Phillip Verene.
Contributors: Bayer, Thora Ilin, 1966-; Verene, Donald Phillip, 1937-
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780801447334; 9780801474729
Subjects: Vico, Giambattista, -- 1668-1744
Other titles: Giambattista Vico; New Vico studies.
Notes: Translations, commentaries, and essays previously published in the annual New Vico studies, 1987-2006.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : interpreting The new science; title: Synopsis of universal law; title: The true and the certain : from On the one principle and one end of universal law; title: A new science is essayed : from On the constancy of the jurisprudent; title: On Homer and his two poems : from the dissertations; title: Vico's address to his readers from a lost manuscript on jurisprudence; title: Vico's reply to the false book notice : the Vici vindiciae; title: Vico's "ignota latebat" : on the impresa and the dipintura; title: Vico's addition to the tree of the poetic sciences and his use of the muses; title: Vico's reprehension of the metaphysics of René Descartes, Benedict Spinoza, and John Locke; title: Appendix : Vico's writings in English translation.