Bright Ages: A Journey into the World of Medieval Science
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Bright Ages: A Journey into the World of Medieval Science
19.99 €
The Middle Ages were not only a time of endless wars and epidemics, but also an era of scientific discovery and a selfless pursuit of knowledge. Medieval thinkers and practitioners explored the world around them, founded the first universities, invented mechanical clocks and instruments for observing celestial bodies.
In this book, our guide to the world of medieval science is a real person, a monk named John Westwick, who lived in the 14th century and was educated at England's largest monastery. The fascinating story of his scientific work allows the author to reveal, beyond the ostentatious world of stellar names and discoveries, the atmosphere of scientific inquiry of the time, presenting the ideas and achievements of the anonymous majority of scientifically minded people, who so often escape the attention of historians. Traveling with Brother John across Britain and beyond, we'll meet fascinating characters from those days: an English abbot-clockmaker, a French craftsman-turned-spy, and a Persian polymath who founded the world's most advanced observatory. We'll learn how these people navigated by the stars, multiplied Roman numerals, cured illnesses, and told time with an astrolabe, and we'll reexamine the notion of the Middle Ages as a dark age.
In this book, our guide to the world of medieval science is a real person, a monk named John Westwick, who lived in the 14th century and was educated at England's largest monastery. The fascinating story of his scientific work allows the author to reveal, beyond the ostentatious world of stellar names and discoveries, the atmosphere of scientific inquiry of the time, presenting the ideas and achievements of the anonymous majority of scientifically minded people, who so often escape the attention of historians. Traveling with Brother John across Britain and beyond, we'll meet fascinating characters from those days: an English abbot-clockmaker, a French craftsman-turned-spy, and a Persian polymath who founded the world's most advanced observatory. We'll learn how these people navigated by the stars, multiplied Roman numerals, cured illnesses, and told time with an astrolabe, and we'll reexamine the notion of the Middle Ages as a dark age.
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