Cosmic Verses

This is the story of five millennia of 'head-scratching' - of how humans haveried to make sense of the cosmos. From mankind's ancestors staggering out offrica two million-odd years ago, to Professor Stephen Hawking and his "Arief History of Time", James Muirden's wonderful new poem cleverly andumorously examines the quest for understanding of our universe. Here are theheories, discoveries, writings and sayings of Aristotle, Plato andythagoras, Ptolemy and the Arab astronomers and mathematicians wholourished during Europe's Dark Ages, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Boyle, andany more, by way of Herschel and Einstein and so to the present day.onderfully funny and extremely clever, "The Cosmic Verses" instructs andlarifies even as it amuses.