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Nature 450, 480 (22 November 2007) | doi:10.1038/450480a; Published online 21 November 2007
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BOOK REVIEWED-Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington
by Matthew Stanley
University of Chicago Press: 2007. 320 pp. $37.50
In this extraordinary book about the life of the distinguished English astrophysicist Sir Arthur Eddington, Matthew Stanley examines the entangled roles of science and religion in his work. Practical Mystic is not a biography in the ordinary sense — readers will look hard to find dates for Eddington's birth and death (1882–1944), and much else has been omitted.
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