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The Clockwork Universe电子书

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作       者:Dolnick, Edward

出  版  社:HarperCollins e-books

出版时间:2011-02-01

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The Clockwork Universe is the story of a band of menwho lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured auniverse that ran like a perfect machine. A meld ofhistory and science, this book is a group portrait ofsome of the greatest minds who ever lived as theywrestled with nature's most sweeping mysteries. Theanswers they uncovered still hold the key to how weunderstand the world.At the end of the seventeenth century an age ofreligious wars, plague, and the Great Fire of London when most people saw the world as falling apart, theseearliest scientists saw a world of perfect order. They declaredthat, chaotic as it looked, the universe was in factas intricate and perfectly regulated as a clock. This wasthe tail end of Shakespeare's century, when the naturaland the supernatural still twined around each other. Diseasewas a punishment ordained by God, astronomy hadnot yet broken free from astrology, and the sky was filledwith omens. It was a time when little was known andeverything was new. These brilliant, ambitious, curiousmen believed in angels, alchemy, and the devil, and theyalso believed that the universe followed precise, mathematicallaws a contradiction that tormented them andchanged the course of history. The Clockwork Universe is the fascinating and compellingstory of the bewildered geniuses of the RoyalSociety, the men who made the modern world.
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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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