Falk's own clever astrolabe, seeking to make that shimmering light in the distance look, as well it should, wonderfully close and luminously real." - Christoph Irmscher - Wall Street Journal "Falk's bubbling curiosity and strong sense of storytelling always swept me along. 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. Short-listed for British Society for the History of Science Hughes Prize 2021 An enlightening history that argues that these times weren't so dark after all, The Light Ages shows how medieval ideas continue to color how we see the world today. The Light Ages offers a gripping story of the struggles and successes of an ordinary man in a precarious world and conjures a vivid picture of medieval life as we have never seen it before. On our way, we encounter a remarkable cast of characters: the clock-building English abbot with leprosy, the French craftsman-turned-spy, and the Persian polymath who founded the world's most advanced observatory. From multiplying Roman numerals to navigating by the stars, curing disease, and telling time with an ancient astrolabe, we learn emerging science alongside Westwyk and travel with him through the length and breadth of England and beyond its shores. Born in a rural manor, educated in England's grandest monastery, and then exiled to a clifftop priory, Westwyk was an intrepid crusader, inventor, and astrologer. In The Light Ages, Cambridge science historian Seb Falk takes us on a tour of medieval science through the eyes of one fourteenth-century monk, John of Westwyk. them, from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the sky, they came to develop a vibrant scientific culture. As medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around.
But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses, and mechanical clocks. Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
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