· I have now finished the book by Arthur Koestler and it was the above image, of our earth taken from space, that came to mind. Possibly such an image can now be taken for granted, but I would love to go back and show it to those such as Kepler, who would have looked at it with wonder. · Arthur Koestler (–) was an extraordinary polymath, writer, and political polemicist. His most famous works include the novels Darkness at Noon and Arrival and Departure; his autobiographical writings, including Spanish Testament and Scum of the Earth; and his visionary nonfiction, including The Ghost in the Machine, The Case of the Midwife Toad, and The www.doorway.ru: Penguin Publishing Group. Koestler’s Sleepwalkers was a genuine contribution to historiography. Somewhat mistitled, most of the book is actually an account of how the Copernican revolution came about. Disputing historians who saw the Copernican shift as the victory of science over intellectual darkness, Koestler highlights the many accidents and missteps before the intellectual achievement of a heliocentric solar www.doorway.ru by:
The "sleepwalkers" of Mr. Koestler's title are the great figures in the history on modern cosmology- Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton. They are "sleepwalkers," according to Mr. Koestler, as are, indeed, most of the creative minds in the history of science, because they never quite know what they were doing. the-sleepwalkers-koestler-arthur_ Identifier-ark ark://t7ds2rs7x Ocr tesseract Ocr_autonomous true Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf Ocr_module_version Ocr_parameters-l eng+Latin Page_number_confidence Ppi Scanner Internet Archive. Find Penguin Modern Classics the Sleepwalkers by Koestler, Arthur at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers.
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe is a book by Arthur Koestler. It traces the history of Western cosmology from ancient Mesopotamia to Isaac Newton. He suggests that discoveries in science arise through a process akin to sleepwalking. About The Sleepwalkers. An extraordinary history of humanity’s changing vision of the universe. In this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between ‘sciences’ and ‘humanities’ to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. He shows how the tragic split between science and religion arose and how, in particular, the modern world-view replaced the medieval world-view in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth. by Koestler, Arthur. New York: Macmillan, Hardcover, first edition, with clipped dust jacket. Jacket is shelfworn with some wear to edges and tanning to inside. Black cloth boards are excellent, page block tanned and faintly marked, address sticker from former owner to rear pastedown.
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