edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more. Hostilities are suddenly moving to a new and more volatile level as Half-Cocked Jack hatches a daring plan, aiming for the total corruption of Britain's newborn monetary system.Įnter Daniel Waterhouse: Aging Puritan and Natural Philosopher, Daniel has been on a long and harrowing quest to help mend the rift between adversarial geniuses.Īs Daniel combs city and country for clues to the identity of the blackguard who is attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers, political factions jockey for position while awaiting the impending death of the ailing queen, and the 'holy grail' of alchemy, the key to life eternal, tantalizes and continues to elude Isaac Newton.Īs Newton, Waterhouse, and Shaftoe each circle closer to the object of Daniel's quest, everything that was will be changed forever.

In 1714 Daniel Waterhouse arbitrates the irrational dispute between the aging mathematical giants Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, both angrily insisting they invented the calculus. Due to marketing concerns, it was originally published in three volumes. The System of the World is the third and final volume in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. London has long been home to a secret war between the brilliant, enigmatic Master of the Mint and closet alchemist, Isaac Newton, and his archnemesis, the insidious counterfeiter Jack the Coiner. The Baroque Cycle (8 volume) Series by Neal Stephenson The Baroque Cycle (8 volume) Series 8 primary works 8 total works The Baroque Cycle was conceived as an 8-book collection and is organized as such.

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