Book description
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.
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 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 dramatised and read a portion of The
Sun Kings for Radio 3.
