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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Birlinn General

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9781846971877

RRP: £12.99

PAGES: 272

PUBLICATION DATE:
February 2, 2012

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The Sensorium of God: A Novel

Stuart Clark

In the mid-17th century Edmond Halley, adventurer and astronomer, visits reclusive alchemist and fearsome mathematician, Isaac Newton, in Cambridge. No one understands why the planets move as Kepler so elegantly described almost a century earlier, and Halley asks Newton for help with solving the problem. Little does Halley know that this simple question will plunge both their lives into crisis, push Europe headlong towards the Age of the Enlightenment and catapult science into its next decisive clash with religion. The Sensorium of God is the second of a trilogy of novels inspired by the dramatic struggles, personal and professional, and key historical events in man’s quest to understand the Universe.

Reviews of The Sensorium of God: A Novel

***** – Sir Patrick Moore in BBC Sky at Night Magazine. "I had been greatly anticipating this book after reading The Sky's Dark Labyrinth, the first in Clark's trilogy, so I was cock-a-hoop when it landed on my desk" – Daily Mail. 'I can't recommend The Sky's Dark Labyrinth trilogy highly enough' – Kathy Stevenson, Daily Mail

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Stuart Clark

Stuart Clark is a former editor of the UK’s bestselling popular astronomy magazine ‘Astronomy Now’ and a visiting fellow of the University of Hertfordshire. His most recent book, ‘The Sun Kings’ (Princeton University Press, 2007), established him as a popular science writer par excellence. Last year Stuart further honed his storytelling skills by working for the BBC to develop ten stories for a forthcoming science-based drama series, ‘Stormshield’, and writing the outline for the astronomy episode of a forthcoming BBC2 series on the history of science. Most recently, he has dramatized and read a portion of ‘The Sun Kings’ for Radio 3.