Scelto come libro dell'anno da The Times, Daily Telegraph, TLS, BBC History Magazine e Tablet "Compulsivo, brillantemente chiaro e superbamente ben scritto, è un'evocazione carismatica di un altro mondo" Ian Mortimer, autore di The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England Il Medioevo fu un'epoca di meraviglie. Ci diedero le prime università, i primi occhiali e i primi orologi meccanici mentre i pensatori medievali cercavano di comprendere il mondo che li circondava, dal passare delle stagioni alle stelle nel cielo. In questo libro, percorriamo il sentiero della scienza medievale con una guida nella vita reale, un monaco del XIV secolo di nome John of Westwyk, inventore, astrologo, crociato, che fu istruito nel più grande monastero d'Inghilterra ed esiliato in un priorato in cima a una scogliera. Seguendo le tracce della sua vita, impariamo a vedere il mondo naturale attraverso gli occhi di Fratel John: navigando con le stelle, moltiplicando i numeri romani, curando le malattie e leggendo l'ora con un astrolabio. Viaggiamo in lungo e in largo per l'Inghilterra, da Saint Albans a Tynemouth, e ci avventuriamo ben oltre le coste della Gran Bretagna. Lungo il cammino, incontriamo un cast di personaggi notevoli: l'abate inglese costruttore di orologi affetto da lebbra, l'artigiano francese trasformato in spia e il poliedrico persiano che fondò l'osservatorio più avanzato del mondo. Un'avvincente storia delle lotte e dei successi di un uomo comune e di un'epoca straordinaria, The Light Ages evoca un'immagine vivida del mondo medievale come non l'abbiamo mai visto prima.
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Seb Falk is a historian and lecturer at Cambridge University. In 2016 he was named as a BBC New Generation Thinker. This is his first book.
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