The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science by Seb Falk

The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science

Seb Falk

416 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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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 soug...

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