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The Light Ages: A History of Medieval Science
The Light Ages is a history of medieval science, but focused on a particular individual. The author wanted to show how science fitted into everyday life in the Middle Ages. He says he's trying to putScience back into histories of the Middle Ages which are so dominated by politics and wars,. Of course, plague has a link to science through medicine; you learn how to multiply using an astrolabe.