Heavenly Knowledge An Astrophysicist Seeks Wisdom in the Stars

By Fiorella Terenzi

Book Overview

You are about to take a thrilling, emotional and empowering journey extending from the farthest reaches of space to the innermost secrets of the soul. Your teacher and guide on this very personal... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380974126
• ISBN13: 9780380974122
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

"Heavenly Knowledge" is a truely interesting read!

Having studied astronomy and science all my life I have read numerous books on various scientific topics. Many are dry and difficult to read, many are pleasant, but a few are really extraordinary. I recall back to Loren Eisley's books that deals with anthropology in a very poetic fashion. After reading Dr. Terenzi's book, I got the same feeling I remember after reading Dr. Eisley's books. She paints a unique picture of the study of astonomy on a personal level, not just using facts and figures and formula, but using your imagination and sensabilities to understand the universe, and at the same time understand yourself. She paints parallel pictures of galaxy interactions, and inter-personal relationships, and along the way tells her unique story of how she became a scientist, then a writer and musician, all the while synthesizing them into a whole. If you like astronomy, and poetry, you will love Dr. Terenzi's book!

A Poetic Vision of the Universe that Touches Your Soul

I love this book. Fiorella writes beautifully to weave a synthesis of her personal experience, poetry, music, philosophy and metaphysics, all around her love for the great science, astrophysics. After we have studied the common thread throughout the arts, sciences, philosophies and theologies we turn to the Light of the stars for inspiration, for from it we have come and to it we shall return.

Astronomical!!!

This book is truly astronomical!!!