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Author(s): Edward Dolnick
ISBN(s): 9780061719516, 006171951X
Edition: 1St Edition
File Details: PDF, 7.56 MB
Year: 2011
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0061719528

ISBN 13: 978-0061719523

Author: Edward Dolnick

“Edward Dolnick’s smoothly written history of the scientific revolution tells the stories of the key players and events that transformed society.” — Charlotte Observer

From New York Times bestselling author Edward Dolnick, 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.

At a time when the world was falling apart— in an age of religious wars, plague, and the Great Fire of London—a group of men looked around them and saw a world of perfect order. Chaotic as it looked, these earliest scientists declared, the universe was in fact an intricate and perfectly regulated clockwork. This was the tail-end of Shakespeare’s century, and these were brilliant, ambitious, confused, conflicted men. They believed in angels and alchemy and the devil, and they believed that the universe followed precise, mathematical laws. This is the story of the bewildered geniuses who made the modern world.

Table of contents: 

Part One

  1. London, 1660

  2. Satan’s Claws

  3. The End of the World

  4. “When Spotted Death Ran Arm’d Through Every Street”

  5. Melancholy Streets

  6. Fire

  7. God at His Drawing Table

  8. The Idea That Unlocked the World

  9. Euclid and Unicorns

  10. The Boys’ Club

  11. To the Barricades!

  12. Dogs and Rascals

  13. A Dose of Poison

  14. Of Mites and Men

  15. A Play Without an Audience

  16. All in Pieces

Part Two – Hope and Monsters

  1. Never Seen Until This Moment

  2. Flies as Big as a Lamb

  3. From Earthworms to Angels

  4. The Parade of the Horribles

  5. “Shuddering Before the Beautiful”

  6. Patterns Made with Ideas

  7. God’s Strange Cryptography

  8. The Secret Plan

  9. Tears of Joy

  10. Walrus with a Golden Nose

  11. Cracking the Cosmic Safe

  12. The View from the Crow’s Nest

  13. Sputnik in Orbit, 1687

  14. Hidden in Plain Sight

  15. Two Rocks and a Rope

  16. A Fly on the Wall

  17. “Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare”

  18. Here Be Monsters!

  19. Barricaded Against the Beast

  20. Out of the Whirlpool

Part Three – Into the Light

  1. All Men Are Created Equal

  2. The Miracle Years

  3. All Mystery Banished

  4. Talking Dogs and Unsuspected Powers

  5. The World in Close‑Up

  6. When the Cable Snaps

  7. The Best of All Possible Feuds

  8. Battle’s End

  9. The Apple and the Moon

  10. A Visit to Cambridge

  11. Newton Bears Down

  12. Trouble with Mr. Hooke

  13. The System of the World

  14. Only Three People

  15. Just Crazy Enough

  16. In Search of God

  17. Conclusion

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