EAN: 9780141989679

THE LIGHT AGES - SEB FALK KARTONIERT (TB)

Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times  Daily Telegraph  TLS  BBC History Magazine and
Tablet 'Compulsive  brilliantly clear and superbly well-written  it's a charismatic evocation
of another world' Ian Mortimer  author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England The
Middle Ages were a time of wonder. They gave us the first universities  the first eyeglasses
and the first mechanical clocks as medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them
from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the sky. In this book  we walk the path of
medieval science with a real-life guide  a fourteenth-century monk named John of Westwyk -
inventor  astrologer  crusader - who was educated in England's grandest monastery and exiled to
a clifftop priory. Following the traces of his life  we learn to see the natural world through
Brother John's eyes: navigating by the stars  multiplying Roman numerals  curing disease and
telling the time with an astrolabe. We travel the length and breadth of England  from Saint
Albans to Tynemouth  and venture far beyond the shores of Britain. On our way  we encounter a
remarkable cast of characters: the clock-building English abbot with leprosy  the French
craftsman-turned-spy and the Persian polymath who founded the world's most advanced
observatory. An enthralling story of the struggles and successes of an ordinary man and an
extraordinary time  The Light Ages conjures up a vivid picture of the medieval world as we have
never seen it before.

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