The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery

When we consider science in the distant past, most people generally think one of two things: that it didn’t exist or that it was facilitated almost solely by high born men experiencing sudden Eureka moments of brilliance. Even though logic tells us that either of these imaginings must clearly be false, it’s hard to shake the image of Archimedes in his bathtub, or Newton being beaned in the head by a wayward apple, and there’s a certain appeal to thinking of the history of science as a series of bite size, Hollywood-worthy climaxes.