Starseekers
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
What if humanity's most profound obsession — the act of looking up at the night sky and daring to ask why? — is the very engine that has driven civilisation itself? Starseekers by Colin Wilson is a sweeping, ambitious chronicle of humanity's relationship with the cosmos, tracing our fascination with the stars from the earliest prehistoric astronomers through to the great scientific revolutions of the modern age. Wilson presents the history of astronomy not as a dry catalogue of discoveries, but as a dramatic, deeply human story of visionaries, mystics, and scientists who stared into the void and changed everything we know about our place in the universe. Written with the characteristically bold, wide-ranging intellect that defines Wilson's body of work, this volume argues that the urge to understand the stars is inseparable from the urge to understand ourselves. Wilson weaves together threads of philosophy, mythology, science, and the occult — a hallmark of his uniquely interdisciplinary style — to construct a narrative that is as intellectually stimulating as it is compulsively readable. For anyone who has ever stood beneath a clear night sky and felt the pull of something vast and unknowable, Starseekers promises not just answers, but far more magnificent questions.
Author: Colin Wilson
Format: Hardback
Genre: Astronomy
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
What if humanity's most profound obsession — the act of looking up at the night sky and daring to ask why? — is the very engine that has driven civilisation itself? Starseekers by Colin Wilson is a sweeping, ambitious chronicle of humanity's relationship with the cosmos, tracing our fascination with the stars from the earliest prehistoric astronomers through to the great scientific revolutions of the modern age. Wilson presents the history of astronomy not as a dry catalogue of discoveries, but as a dramatic, deeply human story of visionaries, mystics, and scientists who stared into the void and changed everything we know about our place in the universe. Written with the characteristically bold, wide-ranging intellect that defines Wilson's body of work, this volume argues that the urge to understand the stars is inseparable from the urge to understand ourselves. Wilson weaves together threads of philosophy, mythology, science, and the occult — a hallmark of his uniquely interdisciplinary style — to construct a narrative that is as intellectually stimulating as it is compulsively readable. For anyone who has ever stood beneath a clear night sky and felt the pull of something vast and unknowable, Starseekers promises not just answers, but far more magnificent questions.