Science
The scientists who lit the path to the Enlightenment – Financial Times
Two books on remarkable 14th-century peasant John Westwyk and Dutch visionary Christiaan Huygens remind us of the dark ages that could still follow
“Scientific understanding has sometimes hit a dead end, or taken a step sideways, or backwards. And it still can,” Seb Falk writes in The Light Ages, a book that illuminates not just the visionaries of the past but also the troubled state of anti-intellectualism in the modern world.
A historian at the University of Cambridge, Falk chronicles medieval innovation through the eyes of John Westwyk, a 14th-century peasant turned monk turned scientist, whose remarkable work is offered as the basis for…
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