Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these
are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the
so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities,
eyeglasses, and mechanical clocks. As medieval thinkers sought to
understand the world around them, from the passing of the seasons
to the stars in the sky, they came to develop a vibrant scientific
culture. In The Light Ages, Cambridge science historian Seb Falk
takes us on a tour of medieval science through the eyes of one
fourteenth-century monk, John of Westwyk. Born in a rural manor,
educated in England's grandest monastery, and then exiled to a
clifftop priory, Westwyk was an intrepid crusader, inventor, and
astrologer. From multiplying Roman numerals to navigating by the
stars, curing disease, and telling time with an ancient astrolabe,
we learn emerging science alongside Westwyk and travel with him
through the length and breadth of England and beyond its shores. 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. The Light Ages offers a gripping
story of the struggles and successes of an ordinary man in a
precarious world and conjures a vivid picture of medieval life as
we have never seen it before. An enlightening history that argues
that these times weren't so dark after all, The Light Ages shows
how medieval ideas continue to color how we see the world today.
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