The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World

Author: Dolnick, EdwardBrand: Harper PerennialEdition: ReprintBinding: PaperbackFormat: IllustratedNumber Of Pages: 416Release Date: 07-02-2012Details: “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 a