Raymond Levine
The Sleepwalkers: The Story of Mankind’s Vision of the Universe and Mankind’s Own Place in it
Summary
This lecture explores the evolution of mankind’s vision of its place in the universe, tracing it from the Babylonian stargazers to the eras of Newton and Einstein. Raymond Levine focuses on the great discoveries, or re-discoveries, made in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries by Copernicus, Galileo, and above all, Kepler.
Raymond Levine
Raymond Levine has been a practicing lawyer in London for over 50 years. He is now retired, at least officially. Having read law at Oxford University, he has spent his precious spare time over many years reading more interesting and exciting things, on topics such as history, philosophy, religion, mythology, and even occasionally science. Apart from a little law, he claims no particular expertise in any of them. Nonetheless he is an advocate of the idea that all things are interconnected and hopes to develop this line of thought in an informative and entertaining way.