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Light Ages : The Surprising Story of Medieval Science, Hardcover by Falk, Seb, ISBN 132400293X, ISBN-13 9781324002932, Brand New, Free shipping in the US An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk. Illustrations.

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Named a Best Book of 2020 by The Telegraph, The Times, and BBC History Magazine An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk.

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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
132400293x
ISBN-13
9781324002932
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038846010

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Book Title
Light Ages : the Surprising Story of Medieval Science
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
History, Science & Technology, Europe / Medieval
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Science, History
Author
Seb Falk
Format
Hardcover

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1.2 in
Item Weight
24.3 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in

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Magnificent...[Falk lets] us inhabit, for a spell of seven finely crafted chapters, the vibrant mind of a 14th-century Benedictine monk, John Westwyk... [Written] as if John Westwyk and Seb Falk, separated in time but not in spirit, were joining hands while guiding us along; or as if The Light Ages were Mr. Falk's own clever astrolabe, seeking to make that shimmering light in the distance look, as well it should, wonderfully close and luminously real., Compulsive, brilliantly clear, and superbly well-written, The Light Ages is more than just a very good book on medieval science: it's a charismatic evocation of another world. Seb Falk uses the monk John of Westwyk to weld us into the medieval ways of imagining as well as thinking. And there are surprises galore for everyone, no matter how knowledgeable they may think they are. I can't recommend it highly enough., If you think the term 'medieval science' is a contradiction then you should read this hugely enlightening and important book., Like a fictional scientist cloning dinosaurs from wisps of DNA, Seb Falk takes barely surviving fragments of evidence about an almost forgotten astronomer in a storm-chilled, clifftop cell to conjure the vast, teeming world of scientific research, practice, and invention in the Late Middle Ages...Profoundly scholarly, wonderfully lucid, and grippingly vivid, The Light Ages will awe the pedants and delight the public., The Lights Ages...illuminates not just the visionaries of the past but also the troubled state of anti-intellectualism in the modern world., Seb Falk has framed a fascinating book around his personal quest to understand how scientific thinking flourished. The Light Ages reveals the intellectual sophistication that flourished against a backdrop of ritual and liturgy. It offers for most of us a novel perspective on a 'dark' historical era, and should fascinate a wide readership., A wonderful book, as at home bringing to life the obscure details of a Hertfordshire monk as it is explicating the infinite reaches of space and time. Required reading for anyone who thinks that the Middle Ages were a dark age., Falk offers a sense of the international nature of medieval scholarship, debunking the image of isolated, repressive monastic communities and highlighting the influence of both Muslim and Jewish innovators., Falk's bubbling curiosity and strong sense of storytelling always swept me along. By the end, The Light Ages didn't just broaden my conception of science; even as I scrolled away on my Kindle, it felt like I was sitting alongside Westwyk at St. Albans abbey, leafing through dusty manuscripts by candlelight., Long before the word 'scientist' was coined, John of Westwyk devised a precision instrument to explore the universe and our place in it. Falk recreates the schooling of this ordinary (if gadget-obsessed) medieval monk in loving detail. There's a world of science on every page.
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2020-028315
Lc Classification Number
Q124.97.F35 2020

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