Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: geocentric universe

  • C.S. Lewis and the medieval model of the universe

    Philip LiebsonChicago, Illinois, United States Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) was a famous author and professor of English literature at both Oxford and Cambridge. Much of his scholarly work focused on the Middle Ages. His work The Discarded Image (1964) concerned the medieval concept of the universe. He drew his material from the writings of the…