Starborn - Roberto Trotta

A sweeping inquiry into how the night sky has shaped what it means to be human.One of our species' most enduring and universal relationships has been with the night sky itself - yet in the glow of today's artificial lighting, we have forgotten this intimacy with the cosmos.In Starborn, cosmologist Roberto Trotta reveals how stargazing has shaped the course of civilisation. Origin myths made the Sun into a life-giving creator and the Milky Way a gateway for departed souls.The motion of celestial bodies... Zobrazit více