Quicksilver: Volume One of the Baroque Cycle

(The Baroque Cycle: Volume 1). A novel about the beginnings of modern science in the 17th & 18th centuries, Volume One of a new trilogy, The Baroque Cycle, by the author of "Cryptonomicon." It is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reasons wars with the bloody ambition of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight. 927p.