The clockwork universe Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the birth of the modern world
A"New York Times"-bestselling author presents the true story of a pivotal moment in modern history when a group of strange, tormented geniuses--Isaac Newton chief among them--invented science and remade our understanding of the world.
| Main Author: | Dolnick, Edward, 1952- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, NY :
Harper,
c2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
Table of Contents:
- London, 1660
- Satan's claws
- The end of the world
- "When spotted death ran arm'd through every street"
- Melancholy streets
- Fire
- God at His drawing table
- The idea that unlocked the world
- Euclid and unicorns
- The boys' club
- To the barricades!
- Dogs and rascals
- A dose of poison
- Of mites and men
- A play without an audience
- All in pieces
- Never seen until this moment
- Flies as big as a lamb
- From earthworms to angels
- The parade of the horribles
- "Shuddering before the beautiful"
- Patterns made with ideas
- God's strange cryptography
- The secret plan
- Tears of joy
- Walrus with a golden nose
- Cracking the cosmic safe
- The view from the crow's nest
- Sputnik in orbit, 1687
- Hidden in plain sight
- Two rocks and a rope
- A fly on the wall
- "Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare"
- Here be monsters!
- Barricaded against the beast
- Out of the whirlpool
- All men are created equal
- The miracle years
- All mystery banished
- Talking dogs and unsuspected powers
- The world in close-up
- When the cable snaps
- The best of all possible feuds
- Battle's end
- The apple and the moon
- A visit to Cambridge
- Newton bears down
- Trouble with Mr. Hooke
- The system of the world
- Only three people
- Just crazy enough
- In search of God.