LAST month that has bothered me ever since. In it Brooks describes an essay about the medieval concept of the universe entitled , a chaplain at the University of Cambridge.
Brooks writes that “while we moderns see space as a black, cold, mostly empty vastness, with planets and stars propelled by gravitational and other forces, Europeans in the Middle Ages saw a more intimate and magical place. The heavens, to them, were a ceiling of moving spheres, rippling with signs and symbols, and moved…
