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The sleepwalkers: a history of man's changing vision of the universe

✍ Scribed by Arthur Koestler

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd;Penguin Classics
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Weight: 805 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0141394544

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✦ Synopsis

Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe

In this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. He shows how the tragic split between science and religion arose and how, in particular, the modern world-view replaced the medieval world-view in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. He also provides vivid and judicious pen-portraits of a string of great scientists and makes clear the role that political bias and unconscious prejudice played in their creativity.

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