"The Light Ages" by Seb Falk is proof that The Dark Ages was not so dark after all. The Dark Ages consisted of the Black Death, violent crusades and Gothic cathedrals. But The Dark Ages had its bright sides as the invention of the first eyeglasses and the mechanical clock and the first universities. In “The Light Ages” science historian Seb Falk is taking us on a tour through the glasses of John of Westwyk, a fourteenth-century monk.  John of Westwyk was an impressive man, an inventor and astrologer. Seb Falk is taking us through the history of multiplying Roman numerals, navigating by the stars, telling time and curing diseases.The time period is presenting us to a number of interesting people such as the English clock-building abbot, the French craftsman-turned-spy, and the Persian polymath. With “The Light Ages” Seb Falk brings us the light times of The Dark Ages by enlightening the successful stories of the historical time. 

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