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Index
Cover
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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