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The Sensorium of God: The Sky's Dark Labyrinth Trilogy: The Sky's Dark Labyrinth Series
Author(s): Stuart Clark (Author)
- Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
- Publication Date: 2 Feb. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781846971877
- ISBN-13: 184697187X
Book Description
In the mid-17th century Edmond Halley, adventurer and astronomer, visits reclusive alchemist and fearsome mathematician, Isaac Newton, in Cambridge. No one understands why the planets move as Kepler so elegantly described almost a century earlier, and Halley asks Newton for help with solving the problem. Little does Halley know that this simple question will plunge both their lives into crisis, push Europe headlong towards the Age of the Enlightenment and catapult science into its next decisive clash with religion. The Sensorium of God is the second of a trilogy of novels inspired by the dramatic struggles, personal and professional, and key historical events in man’s quest to understand the Universe.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This book will certainly enhance his reputation. –Sir Patrick Moore, BBC Sky at Night.
‘If you enjoy historical novels then this would be a good and unusual choice (even if you don’t have a particular interest in science) focusing as it does as much on ideas as on the fascinating and flawed individuals who grappled with those ideas.’ –New Books Mag
‘I can’t recommend The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth trilogy highly enough’ –Kathy Stevenson, Daily Mail
About the Author
Stuart Clark is a former editor of the UK’s bestselling popular astronomy magazine Astronomy Now and a visiting fellow of the University of Hertfordshire. His most recent book, The Sun Kings (Princeton University Press, 2007), established him as a popular science writer par excellence. Last year Stuart further honed his storytelling skills by working for the BBC to develop ten stories for a forthcoming science-based drama series, Stormshield, and writing the outline for the astronomy episode of a forthcoming BBC2 series on the history of science. Most recently, he has dramatized and read a portion of The Sun Kings for Radio 3.
