51 reviews for:

Beneath the Night: How the stars have shaped the history of humankind

Stuart Clark

4.08 AVERAGE

pulchro24's review

4.0

informative inspiring medium-paced

eleanorsenecal's review

4.75

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

itsarthuradams's review

5.0

adventurous challenging hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing tense medium-paced

jackc5755's review

3.5

informative reflective slow-paced

naomi_messer's review

4.75

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

sklepia's review

3.75

informative medium-paced

iaraya's review against another edition

4.5

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

hlyhevali's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

smitchy's review

4.0

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"Shakespeare saw the same stars in the same patterns that we do. So did Galileo, Columbus, Joan of Arc, Cleopatra, and the first man-ape to look up in curiosity. From space age back to the stone age, to be beneath the night is to witness something that every other human who has ever lived has also seen. It is our common heritage"
Stuart Clark's history of our relationship with our night sky got me on the first page with the quote above. This is a book about history, religion, science, politics, and power. It is about humanity's search for connection to our wider universe.
I love books that show me the connections between historical events and scientific advances, or between a religion's dominion and the political moves that happen in the background. I had so many "ahhh, that why that happened" moments while reading I just couldn't wait to turn the next page and find out something else new.

november_rain's review against another edition

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I’ll get back to it when i have more free time