Manuel quoted Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (Baroque Cycle, #1)
Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver, a monumental epic that follows his critically acclaimed international bestseller Cryptonomicon, is …
Those who assume hypothesis as first principles of their speculations… may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be. — Roger Cotes, preface to Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica, second edition, 1713
— Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (Baroque Cycle, #1)
I'll be sharing the chapter introduction quotes.