Starborn: How the Stars Made Us and Who We Would be Without Them

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Starborn: How the Stars Made Us and Who We Would Be Without Them by Roberto Trotta: The Sun Worshippers

Starborn: How the Stars Made Us and Who We Would Be Without Them by Roberto Trotta

The Sun Worshippers

BBC Radio 4 - Starborn: How the Stars Made Us and Who We Would Be Without Them by Roberto Trotta, The Sun Worshippers

Cosmologist Roberto Trotta considers the symbolic potency of the sun and moon.

Roberto Trotta explores the symbolic potency of the sun and moon, and asks what the Scientific Revolution owes to astronomy. Read by Khalid Abdalla.

From myth to science though timekeeping and navigation, the night sky is central to the human story. Roberto Trotta explores the many ways in which our lives are intertwined with the stars. 

The cosmologist considers the symbolic potency of the sun and moon and asks what the Scientific Revolution owes to astronomy.

Read by Khalid Abdalla
Abridged by Anna Magnusson
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie

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