Article: Paperbacks; Scientist Chet Raymo looks at the world as naturalist and poet He writes of snowflakes, constellations, comets, death, and sees beauty everywhere.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Review) (book review)

With the Heaven's Gate tragedy still fresh in memory, it seems a bit strange to recommend a book in which the author spends a lot of time looking to the stars, but Chet Raymo isn't a hysteric, a cultist or an apocalyptic prophet. He is a scientist with a naturalist's eye and a poet's heart. Honey From Stone (Hungry Mind Press, $15) is a glorious mix of science, religion, astronomy and nature by a columnist for the Boston Globe who also is a professor of physics and astronomy at Stonehill College in Massachusetts.

Raymo's book is patterned after a monk's Book of Hours, and its chapters are named for the eight canonical hours of the day - Matins, Lauds, Prime, ...

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