Refracting sphere illustration from the facsimile edition of Robert Hooke’s Philosophical Experiments and Observations, edited by W. Derham.
Published by Frank Cass & Co., Ltd., London, 1967.
Flea illustration from Robert Hooke’s 1665 Micrographia reproduced by permission of Octavo, www.octavo.com.
Illustrations from Isaac Newton’s 1729 Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy courtesy of Primary Source Microfilm.
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FIRST EDITION
Stephenson, Neal.
Quicksilver / Neal Stephenson.—
p. cm.—(The Baroque cycle; v. 1)
ISBN 978-0-380-97742-0
1. Adventures and adventurers—Fiction. 2. Seventeenth century—Fiction.
3. Eighteenth century—Fiction. 4. Scientists—Fiction. 5. Alchemists—Fiction.
I. Title.
PS3569.T3868 Q53 2003
813’.54—dc21 2002035752