5/31/2023 0 Comments The light ages by seb falk![]() ![]() And there are surprises galore for everyone, no matter how knowledgeable they may think they are. ![]() Seb Falk uses the monk John of Westwyk to weld us into the medieval ways of imagining as well as thinking. ![]() Falk's own clever astrolabe, seeking to make that shimmering light in the distance look, as well it should, wonderfully close and luminously real., Compulsive, brilliantly clear, and superbly well-written, The Light Ages is more than just a very good book on medieval science: it's a charismatic evocation of another world. ![]() as if John Westwyk and Seb Falk, separated in time but not in spirit, were joining hands while guiding us along or as if The Light Ages were Mr. us inhabit, for a spell of seven finely crafted chapters, the vibrant mind of a 14th-century Benedictine monk, John Westwyk. ![]()
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