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Quicksilver / Neal Stephenson. --

By: Series: Stephenson, Neal. Baroque cycle ; v. 1.Publication details: New York : HarperCollins, c2003.Edition: 1st ed. --Description: x, 927 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm. --ISBN:
  • 0380977427
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • FIC
LOC classification:
  • PS3569.T3868 Q53 2003
Summary: Alchemist Enoch Root arrives in 1713 Boston to collect Isaac Newton's friend Daniel Waterhouse and take him back to Europe, where he is needed to mediate the fight for precedence between Newton and scientist and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, both of whom independently invented the calculus. Meanwhile, vagabond Jack Shaftoe journeys across Europe where he meets Eliza, a young English woman who has escaped from a Turkish harem.
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"William Morrow."

Alchemist Enoch Root arrives in 1713 Boston to collect Isaac Newton's friend Daniel Waterhouse and take him back to Europe, where he is needed to mediate the fight for precedence between Newton and scientist and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, both of whom independently invented the calculus. Meanwhile, vagabond Jack Shaftoe journeys across Europe where he meets Eliza, a young English woman who has escaped from a Turkish harem.

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