Cosmotheoros
Christiaan Huygens
Written at the end of the seventeenth century, Cosmotheoros is one of the earliest scientific attempts to imagine life beyond Earth. Drawing on astronomy, natural philosophy, and reasoned speculation, Christiaan Huygens explores the possible inhabitants of other worlds, their bodies, senses, societies, and place in the cosmos.
The Persistent Divine. Spirit in the Age of Equations
Didier Maleuvre
Has science really banished the divine? The deeper we probe into reality, the stranger and more mysterious it becomes. Why is the universe governed by mathematical laws? Why is it intelligible at all? Moving boldly across physics, cosmology, philosophy, literature, and theology, Didier Maleuvre reveals the spiritual impulse that still animates our search for truth. Provocative and beautifully written, The Persistent Divine rediscovers wonder at the heart of the scientific age.