“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.
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
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Author: Dolnick, Edward
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780061719523
Details:
Author: Dolnick, Edward
Brand: Harper Perennial
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Format: Illustrated
Number Of Pages: 416
Release Date: 07-02-2012
Package Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.3 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780061719523
