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The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe (Compass)

The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe (Compass)

by Arthur Koestler (Author), Arthur Koestler (Author), Herbert Butterfield (Author)

Synopsis

A thought-provoking account of the scientific achievements and lives of cosmologists from Babylonians to Newton.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 624
 Edition: Revised ed.
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 07 Dec 1989
ISBN 10: 0140192468
ISBN 13: 9780140192469

Author Bio
Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) 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 Sleepwalkers.

Herbert Butterfield was an influencial historiographer born in 1900 in Yorkshire, England. A graduate of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, he is best known for his 1931 work The Whig Interpretation of History. He died in 1979.