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Cosmology has, for much of this century, dominated the sciences. It’s the golden age, say the publishers of Cosmology in Antiquity by M. R. Right (Rautledge, £40 hbk, ISBN 0415 08372 9, £12.99 pbk), suggesting that you dip into the past to discover that this obsession was shared by a not inconsiderable number of medieval thinkers.