The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World [1st Harper Perennial ed] 9780061719516, 9780062042262, 006171951X, 9780061719523, 0061719528

London, 1660 -- Satan's claws -- The end of the world -- "When spotted death ran arm'd through every stre

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English Pages xviii, 378, 15 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm Year 2012;2011

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The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World [1st Harper Perennial ed]
 9780061719516, 9780062042262, 006171951X, 9780061719523, 0061719528

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.

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