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Seb falk the light ages6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() We travel the length and breadth of England, from Saint Albans to Tynemouth, and venture far beyond the shores of Britain. ![]() 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.įollowing 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. ![]() 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. Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Daily Telegraph, TLS, BBC History Magazine and Tablet. ![]()
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