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Quicksilver (Paperback, 2003, William Heinemann) 4 stars

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

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I'll be sharing the chapter introduction quotes.