Explores the shared quest of ancient prophets and today's astronomers to explain the strange phenomena of our skies-from the apocalypse foretold in Revelations

"An intellectual accomplishment that illuminates the magic and the wisdom of the heavens above."—Kirkus Reviews "Tracing our contemplation of the cosmos from

Available again, with a new preface, a physicist's "exceptionally clear summary of 2,500 years of science and a fascinating account of the ways in which it ofte

Here the philosopher and physicist David Z Albert argues, among other things, that the difference between past and future can be understood as a mechanical phen

Many scientists have come to realize that science and religion can nurture each other. One example was the flowering of science in the first centuries of Islam.