The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick
Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
A vivid account of the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, following the Royal Society’s tinkerers and geniuses—especially Isaac Newton—as they confront plague, fire, religious zeal, and fierce rivalries to uncover mathematical and physical laws that recast the cosmos as a precise, mechanical system. Blending colorful portraits, gripping episodes, and clear explanations of ideas like calculus, gravity, and orbital motion, it shows how experiment, skepticism, and a near-devotional drive to decode divine order helped forge modern science.
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- Published
- 2011
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 378-416
- Original Language
- English
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