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"Estimo que el mejor libro de filosofia natural es aquel que esta perpetuamente abierto delante de nuestros ojos, quiero decir la Naturaleza; pero como esta escrito en caracteres diferentes del de nuestro alfabeto, no puede ser leido por todo el mundo. Los caracteres de tal libro no son otros que los triangulos, los cuadrados, los circulos, esferas, conos y otras figuras matematicas, perfectamente apropiadas para tal lectura" (Carta de Galileo a Fortunio Liceti, enero 1641) Galileo hoy es ante todo un simbolo del pensamiento cientifico moderno, segun el cual la ciencia no puede llegar a la...

A history of 2,000 years of the Catholic Church through an examination of the men who led it, this book focuses on 100 of the 265 popes, from Peter to the present. It includes profiles of men such as Pope Gregory I, who became the patron saint of musicians, singers, students, and teachers; Pope Innocent III, who organized for the Fourth Crusade, which ultimately led to the sacking of Constantinople; and the most recent pope, Benedict XVI. Readers interested in the history of one of the most powerful institutions in world history will find this an important resource. Una historia de 2,000...

From the candid listeners of his beginning as the jubilant and Mediterranean singer, more than five decades have passed. Many of Joan Manuel Serrat's songs are stuck in the memory of various generations. They have become hymns and luminous landscapes in our lives, of dreams and desires that have crossed between singer and audience. The author understands the true universality of an artist is always rooted in his origins. Starting at Serrat's own chronicles as a child, in a melting pot neighborhood, mixed like his own Catalan and Aragon family, it tells the story of a singer that transformed...

Lifebuilder of Religion, the greatest of masters, heir of Muhammad, many were the names with which Ibn Arabi, renowned Sufi mystic born in Murcia in the second half of the twelfth century, in the height of Arab culture, whose ideological thinking is expanded by the different ramifications of knowledge.