The Organs of Sense

A blind astronomer's mysterious prediction sets a young Gottfried Leibniz on a quest for truth in this hilarious and haunting philosophical comedy. In 1666, an astronomer makes a prediction shared by no one else in the world: at the stroke of noon on June 30 of that year, a solar eclipse will cast all of Europe into total darkness for four seconds. This astronomer is rumored to be using the longest telescope ever built, but he is also known to be blind—and not only blind, but incapable of sight,