
Clockwork Universe
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Chronology
- Preface
- Part One: Chaos
- Chapter One - London, 1660
- Chapter Two - Satan's Claws
- Chapter Three - The End of the World
- Chapter Four - "When Spotted Death Ran Arm'd Through Every Street"
- Chapter Five - Melancholy Streets
- Chapter Six - Fire
- Chapter Seven - God at His Drawing Table
- Chapter Eight - The Idea That Unlocked the World
- Chapter Nine - Euclid and Unicorns
- Chapter Ten - The Boys' Club
- Chapter Eleven - To the Barricades!
- Chapter Twelve - Dogs and Rascals
- Chapter Thirteen - A Dose of Poison
- Chapter Fourteen - Of Mites and Men
- Chapter Fifteen - A Play Without an Audience
- Chapter Sixteen - All in Pieces
- Part Two: Hope and Monsters
- Chapter Seventeen - Never Seen Until This Moment
- Chapter Eighteen - Flies as Big as a Lamb
- Chapter Nineteen - From Earthworms to Angels
- Chapter Twenty - The Parade of the Horribles
- Chapter Twenty-One - "Shuddering Before the Beautiful"
- Chapter Twenty-Two - Patterns Made with Ideas
- Chapter Twenty-Three - God's Strange Cryptography
- Chapter Twenty-Four - The Secret Plan
- Chapter Twenty-Five - Tears of Joy
- Chapter Twenty-Six - Walrus with a Golden Nose
- Chapter Twenty-Seven - Cracking the Cosmic Safe
- Chapter Twenty-Eight - The View from the Crow's Nest
- Chapter Twenty-Nine - Sputnik in Orbit, 1687
- Chapter Thirty - Hidden in Plain Sight
- Chapter Thirty-One - Two Rocks and a Rope
- Chapter Thirty-Two - A Fly on the Wall
- Chapter Thirty-Three - "Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare"
- Chapter Thirty-Four - Here Be Monsters!
- Photographic Insert
- Chapter Thirty-Five - Barricaded Against the Beast
- Chapter Thirty-Six - Out of the Whirlpool
- Part Three: Into the Light
- Chapter Thirty-Seven - All Men Are Created Equal
- Chapter Thirty-Eight - The Miracle Years
- Chapter Thirty-Nine - All Mystery Banished
- Chapter Forty - Talking Dogs and Unsuspected Powers
- Chapter Forty-One - The World in Close-Up
- Chapter Forty-Two - When the Cable Snaps
- Chapter Forty-Three - The Best of All Possible Feuds
- Chapter Forty-Four - Battle's End
- Chapter Forty-Five - The Apple and the Moon
- Chapter Forty-Six - A Visit to Cambridge
- Chapter Forty-Seven - Newton Bears Down
- Chapter Forty-Eight - Trouble with Mr. Hooke
- Chapter Forty-Nine - The System of the World
- Chapter Fifty - Only Three People
- Chapter Fifty-One - Just Crazy Enough
- Chapter Fifty-Two - In Search of God
- Chapter Fifty-Three - Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- Also by Edward Dolnick
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
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