Starborn : How the Stars Made Us - and Who We Would Be Without Them by Roberto Trotta

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA NEW SCIENTIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'A stunning and unforgettable voyage through the stars' STEPHEN FRY'Trotta writes like a poet' WALL STREET JOURNAL'Illuminating' Robin Ince'Will leave

readers viewing the stars with fresh eyes' MARTIN REESA sweeping inquiry into how the night sky has shaped what it means to be human.

One of our

species' most enduring and universal relationships is with the night sky

itself. Across the ages, the stars have served as clocks, maps, compasses,

muses and gods, defining our laws of reality and our dreams of the sublime.

How radically different would we be if we looked to the night sky and saw . .

. nothing? Leading cosmologist Roberto Trotta explores how stargazing has

shaped the course of civilisation and offers a dramatic alternate history -

imagining how a world without stars would change our understanding of

science, art and ourselves. Revealing the fundamental connections between

astronomy and the story of civilisation, Starborn will change how you

think of the night sky forever.

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Binding: Paperback,
Pagination: 352 pages