The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick

The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick

The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine. A meld of history and science, this book is a group portrait of some of the greatest minds who ever lived as they wrestled with natures most sweeping mysteries. The answers they uncovered still hold the key to how we understand the world.

At the end of the 17th century, an age of religious wars, plague, and the Great Fire of London when most people saw the world as falling apart, these earliest scientists saw a world of perfect order. They declared that, chaotic as it looked, the universe was in fact as intricate and perfectly regulated as a clock. This was the tail end of Shakespeare's century, when the natural and the supernatural still twined around each other. Disease was a punishment ordained by God, astronomy had not yet broken free from astrology, and the sky was filled with omens. It was a time when little was known and everything was new. These brilliant, ambitious, curious men believed in angels, alchemy, and the devil, and they also believed that the universe followed precise, mathematical laws, a contradiction that tormented them and changed the course of history. The Clockwork Universe is the fascinating and compelling story of the bewildered geniuses of the Royal Society, the men who made the modern world.

Dolnick, Edward: - Edward Dolnick is the author of The Writing of the Gods, The Clockwork Universe, The Forger's Spell, Down the Great Unknown, and the Edgar Award-winning The Rescue Artist. A former chief science writer at The Boston Globe, he has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and many other publications. There are over 130,000 copies of his books in print. He lives with his wife near Washington, DC.

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ISBN 13	9780061719516
ISBN 10	006171951X
Title	The Clockwork Universe
Author	Edward Dolnick
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2011-02-08
Number of pages	400
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