Quicksilver

by Neal Stephenson

Hinging on a conflict between Newton and Leibniz to determine the development of calculus. First in the Baroque Trilogy.

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Quicksilver

by Neal Stephenson

Other books by Neal Stephenson

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

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Middlemarch by George Eliot

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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson

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Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson

Cryptonomicon
by Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson