the order in which the human minds of the gentiles have been raised from earth to heaven. All the heiroglyphs visible on the ground denote the world of nations to which men applied themselves before anything else. The globe in the middle represents the world of nature which the physicists later observed. The heiroglyphs above signify the world of minds and of God which the metaphysician finally contemplated (26).
In other words, there are three concerns in Vico's philosophy: the nations and their creation and development, nature, and the mental realm where the minds of men and God meet. Vico's metaphysics, however, are based not on any rational process but on the symbols in a painting. This is hardly effective, scientific evidence for the creation of a philosophy
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