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Good writeup! For a fictionalization (well informed by the same resources cited by this article) of Newton's oddness, Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle books are
by zbentley 9y ago
Good writeup! For a fictionalization (well informed by the same resources cited by this article) of Newton's oddness, Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle books are an excellent pseudo-historical romp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle
- tashoecraft 9y agoFinished the cycle last year, can't recommend it enough. The only problem is how well it intertwines the fictional from the non fictional, I'm not actually sure which parts I know about Newton's oddness is true or not.
- NotSammyHagar 9y agoEveryone should read that, and Cryptonomicon.