The Organs of Sense

by Adam Ehrlich Sachs

Book Overview

"This book is only for people who like joy, absurdity, passion, genius, dry wit, youthful folly, amusing historical arcana, or telescopes." --Rivka Galchen, author of Little Labors and American Innovations

In 1666, an astronomer makes a prediction shared by no one else in the world: at the stroke of noon on June 30 of that year, a solar eclipse will cast all of Europe into total darkness for four seconds. This astronomer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374227373
• ISBN13: 9780374227371
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.8"