The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
of Edward Dolnick
Description
The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine. A meld of history and science, this book is a group portrait of some of the greatest minds who ever lived as they wrestled with natureâs most sweeping mysteries. The answers they uncovered still hold the key to how we understand the world.At the end of the seventeenth centuryâan age of religious wars, plague, and the Great Fire of Londonâwhen most people saw the world as falling apart, these earliest scientists saw a world of perfect order. They declared that, chaotic as it looked, the universe was in fact as intricate and perfectly regulated as a clock. This was the tail end of Shakespeareâs century, when the natural land the supernatural still twined around each other. Disease was a punishment ordained by God, astronomy had not yet broken free from astrology, and the sky was filled with omens. It was a time when little was known and everything was new. These brilliant, ambitious, curious men believed in angels, alchemy, and the devil, and they also believed that the universe followed precise, mathematical lawsâ-a contradiction that tormented them and changed the course of history.The Clockwork Universe is the fascinating and compelling story of the bewildered geniuses of the Royal Society, the men who made the modern world.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 378 pages
- Publisher Harper
- Publication Date February 8th 2011
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780061719516
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
- Scenario ['London, England']
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