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    Beneath the Night: How the stars have shaped the history of humankind
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    Beneath the Night: How the stars have shaped the history of humankind

    Written by Stuart Clark

    Narrated by Stuart Clark

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    From Stone Age to space age, people have looked up at the stars and been inspired by their beauty, their patterns, and their majesty.

    Beneath the Night is a history of humanity, told through our relationship with the night sky. From prehistoric cave art and Ancient Egyptian zodiacs to the modern era of satellites and space exploration, Stuart Clark explores a fascination shared across the world and throughout millennia. It is one that has shaped our scientific understanding; helped us navigate the terrestrial world; provided inspiration for our poets, artists and philosophers; and it has given us a place to project our hopes and fears. In the stars, we can see our past - and ultimately, our fate.

    This is the awe-inspiring story of the universe, and our place within it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFaber & Faber Audio
    Release dateOct 13, 2020
    ISBN9781783352234
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    Beneath the Night: How the stars have shaped the history of humankind
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    Stuart Clark

    Stuart Clark is an author and journalist whose career is devoted to presenting the complex world of astronomy to the general public. He holds a first class honours degree and a PhD in astrophysics, is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a former Vice Chair of the Association of British Science Writers. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books including The Sun Kings, The Big Questions and Voyager and a trilogy of novels set around the times of greatest change in mankind's understanding of the Universe. Clark regularly writes for the The Times, New Scientist, BBC and Astronomy Now. The Independent placed him alongside Stephen Hawking and Professor Sir Martin Rees as one of the 'stars' of British astrophysics teaching.

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