Universe of Stone

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<p>In the twelfth century, Christians in Europe began to build a completely new kind of church - soaring, spacious monuments flooded with light from immense windows. These were the first Gothic churches, the crowning example of which was the cathedral of Chartres: a revolution in thought embodied in stone and glass, and a bridge between the ancient and modern worlds.</p><p>In Universe of Stone, Philip Ball explains the genesis and development of the Gothic style. He argues that it signified a profound change in the social, intellectual and theological climate of Western Christendom. As the church represented nothing less than a vision of heaven on earth, this shift in architectural style marked the beginning of the argument between faith and reason which continues today, and of a scientific view of the world that threatened to dispense with God altogether.</p>

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<b>Philip Ball</b>writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and worked for many years as an editor for physical sciences at<i>Nature</i>. His books cover a wide range of scientific and cultural phenomena, and include<i>Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another</i>(winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books),<i>The Music Instinct</i>,<i>Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything,</i><i>Serving The Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Science Under Hitler</i>and<i>Invisible: The history of the Unseen from Plato to Particle Physics</i>.

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