ISBN 0140209727|Paperback|624 pages|1968|Pelican Books
The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler is a thought-provoking account of the scientific achievements of cosmologists from the Babylonians to Newton.
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The Sleepwalkers discuss great figures in the history on modern cosmology such as Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton. It takes a look at man’s ideas of the heavens.
This book aims to be “a comprehensive survey of man’s changing vision of the universe which encloses him.”
Author:
Arthur Koestler
ISBN:
0140209727
Binding:
Paperback
Publisher:
Pelican Books
Pages:
624
Year of Publication:
1968
Edition:
Reissue
Condition:
Used
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
About the Author
The author was a Hungarian British Jewish author and journalist. He was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. He was an avid writer and wrote many books. Some of his titles in non-fiction include The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage, The Case of the Midwife Toad and Suicide of a Nation. His fictional works include The Gladiators, Darkness at Noon and Thieves in the Night.
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