Don’t Call It a Comeback: Science Has Been Here for Years
The Middle Ages Were Never Dark to Begin With. Reviewing ‘The Light Ages’ by Seb Falk
When picking a tour guide through medieval science, choose a monk. But, wait! Hold up. Medieval science: Isn’t that an oxymoron? You might assume so. We’re so used to thinking in terms of the “Dark Ages,” a supposedly long intellectual slump after the fall of Rome in the fifth century, that we can’t imagine anything like science emerging from the time.
