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Title	:	The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
Author	:	Arthur Koestler
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 624 pages
Published	:	June 5th 1990 by Arkana/Penguin (first published 1959)
Categories	:	Science. History. Nonfiction. Philosophy. Astronomy. History Of Science

The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe Paperback | Pages: 624 pages

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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 century. He also provides vivid and judicious pen-portraits of a string of great scientists and makes clear the role that political bias and unconscious prejudice played in their creativity.

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Original Title:	The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
ISBN:	0140192468 (ISBN13: 9780140192469)
Edition Language:	English

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A history of cosmology from Ptolemy & Pythagoras to Newton with hundreds of pages of biography on Copernicus, Kepler & Galileo. Who knew that Galileo was a jerk and the Catholic Church bent over backwards to keep him out of trouble? The epilogue is especially important in that it ponders the disassociation of religion and science - what we've lost with what we've gained, and how modern physics incomprehensible explanations of how the universe works are in a way similar to the ancients

A heavy subject, but very interesting. A mixture of history, cosmology/astronomy, and physics. I never was good at physics back in school, due to whatever reason (mainly the way the teachers explained it, I guess). Astronomy was an interest of mine, but without all the mathematics and what not. History, too, but again, circumstances weren't always favourable. Or, in other words, once out of school, I became more interested in certain subjects at which I wasn't always successful in school.In any

Shame: far too erudite for this declining brain



Another wide ranging history - from the Great Chain of Being to Newton - but mainly focused on math and science. The title is based on the way Kepler and Tycho de Brahe got together to pool their talents. It also applies to Kepler's tendency to make a serious error in his calculations that is subsequently cancelled out by another error, allowing him to sleepwalk to the correct answer. And describing Newton's theories on gravity - "one is able to realize the enormous courage - or sleepwalker's

I have now read this book 3 times and I think I will re-read it at least one or two more times! Manny - a reviewer below, has done a great job of providing a review and I suggest all read his! However I am amazed, for example, at the decades of work that Kepler spent in figuring out how the solar system is really put together (pre-Newton and pre-Einstein cs). Years following one approach, not comfortable with the results, then another major approach, then another, fruitlessly trying to solve the

A series of well researched essays on Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, and how they stumbled, or in Koestler's words - sleepwalked, their way through their eponymous works and discoveries.Thoroughly researched, incredibly well written, and Koestler's insights into these men's lives seems uncannily spot on. He wasn't exactly flattered by Copernicus or Galileo, and though he clearly respected Kepler's genius, he also portrayed him as a distracted genius who either by accident or through