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From: George Myers <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Nov 22, 2005 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: on history & oral history
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"Giovanni Battista Vico was born in Naples, Italy, June 23 1688, to a
bookseller and daughter of a carriage maker." He is regarded by many I
thought as the origin for the "science of modern history". (Vico was
one of the names of the colleges of residential education at Buffalo
University, NY, with the only law school in the state system in New
York, once proposed for Stony Brook University). Perhaps it's "The New
Science" (and his treatise of the same name, which has had wide
influence on many scholars, see
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/vico/) that entangles historians and
archaeologists alike in the field?

George Myers