All Quicksilver annotations by page number
All annotations by page number
This is the complete list of page annotations. It's manually generated, so if you create a new entry you should add it to this page.
If you would like to create your own annotations1, you can add a new file to the git repository. Many annotations were authored by Neal Stephenson, but anyone is welcome to add constructive annotations. A constructive annotation is one that supplies accurate and useful information about some aspect of the book.
The annotations refer to the American hardcover edition, ISBN 0380977427.
v - Baroque Cycle (Neal Stephenson)
vii - To the woman upstairs (Jeremy Bornstein)
ix - Many other scholarly works (Jeremy Bornstein)
xiii - Invocation (Neal Stephenson)
1 - Those who assume hypotheses... (Neal Stephenson)
3 - Jack Ketch (Neal Stephenson)
3 - ...dollop of hills... (Neal Stephenson)
3 - ...a squadron of lobsterbacks... (Dennis Traub)
4 - ...On Sir Isaac Newton's temperature scale... (Alan Sinder)
4 - ...pale gray eyes... (Andux)
5 - ...the preacher's rantings... (Alan Sinder)
5 - ...the last one... (Neal Stephenson)
6 - Cartesian number-line (Neal Stephenson)
7 - Ben. Son of Josaiah. (Gary Thompson)
8 - King Carlos the Sufferer(Alan Sinder)
9 - a loud fellow (Alan Sinder)
9 - Charing Cross (Neal Stephenson)
9 - Restoration (Jeremy Bornstein)
10 - D.G. HISPAN ET IND REX (Alan Sinder)
11 - Hypothesis of Vortices (Neal Stephenson)
13 - Some Irish, the rest Angolan... (Alan Sinder)
15 - Daniel Waterhouse (Neal Stephenson)
16 - Massachusetts Bay Colony Institute of Technologickal Arts (Neal Stephenson)
16 - Massachusetts Bay Colony Institute of Technologickal Arts (Patrick Tufts)
18 - ...heard by their future Queen... (Chris Swingley)
20 - A harder question (Jeremy Bornstein)
21 - John Comstock and Thomas More Anglesey (Neal Stephenson)
22 - Monsieur Le Febure (Neal Stephenson)
22 - T'was all rubbish (Alan Sinder)
22 - anointed him with angelbalm, a thousand years old (Alan Sinder)
22 - John Wilkins...Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson)
26 - Cha, or chai, or the, or tay(Sorenson)
29 - ...rub his prisoner's face... (Neal Stephenson)
33 - show the boy Euclid...(Alan Sinder)
36 - It is the product of five primes. (Gary Thompson)
36 - No linear indexing system (Edward Vielmetti)
40 - The priority dispute has turned vicious (Alan Sinder)
43 - Fellow Armenian (Jeremy Bornstein)
48 - Demolishing the cathedral (Jeremy Bornstein)
46 - ...campus of domed pavilions (Alan Sinder)
60 - Isaac was pale and starlight(ghash)
64 - Mrs. Goose (Neal Stephenson)
69 - well-trimmed ship (Neal Stephenson)
69 - lascars (Jeremy Bornstein)
71 - eyeball experiments (Brett Kuehner)
74 - wheel by which the ship is steered (Neal Stephenson)
75 - sundial synchronization (Bill Seitz)
78 - Isaac Barrow (Neal Stephenson)
80 - Stourbridge Fair (Alan Sinder)
86 - Ashkenazi (Jeremy Bornstein)
91 - Atlantic is striped with currents (Chris Swingley)
92 - The page ends abruptly. (Scott Elkin)
94 - found God (Neal Stephenson)
96 - YOU AND I ARE BUT EARTH (Gary Thompson)
112 - at Epsom (Neal Stephenson)
114 - Hooke approaches (Neal Stephenson)
124 - Word arrived that Fermat had died (T Whalen)
124 - Punishments (Neal Stephenson)
128 - Fly stuck to quill (Neal Stephenson)
139 - Systematic Alphabet (Jonnay)
142 - symmetry of snowflakes (Jeremy Bornstein)
146 - the western horizon (Armaced)
150 - Newton at Woolsthorpe (Neal Stephenson)
160 - Regents Firewall (Simon)
161 - Blunderbuss (Professor Bikey Bike)
165 - Zeno's Paradox (Matt Zwolinski)
166 - Schooners (Neal Stephenson)
166 - Strange information (Neal Stephenson)
170 - John Locke was writing a constitution for Carolina(Mike Lorrey & Alan Sinder)
176 - Black Velvet (Scott Elkin)
181 - In the House of Monsieur Le Febure (Neal Stephenson)
182 - Ned Ward (Neal Stephenson)
183 - Meeting of the Society (Neal Stephenson)
185 - Tarantella (Alan Sinder)
187 - Samuel Pepys (Joe Goldberg)
195 - Comstock House (Neal Stephenson)
197 - Knott Bolstrood (Neal Stephenson)
197 - Knott Bolstrood (Jeremy Bornstein)
215 - The dog shit in the boat (Neal Stephenson)
222 - The sun becomes an oval (John B.)
233 - Chirurgeon (Jeremy Bornstein)
236 - Once More Into the Breeches (Neal Stephenson)
246 - Apthorp---the second A (Neal Stephenson)
253 - What is to come? (Eric S. Raymond)
257 - Jeova Sanctus Unus (Professorbikeybike)
270 - John Wilkins... (Pronoiac)
271 - Daniel saw gears, cranks, shafts. (Trismegis2)
278 - ...truth can be grasped as if pictured on paper.(Gary Thompson)
299 - When you turn the crank?(Alan Sinder)
305 - The Bernoullis (Jonnay) 308 - Richard Comstock
316 - the first few terms of a series (jere7my tho?rpe)
318 - ...the monster (Alan Sinder)
343 - Jack Ketch (The Shabby Sheik)
367 - Imp of the Perverse (Neal Stephenson)
370 - Qwghlm (Neal Stephenson)
379 - ...elaborate lace undergarments (Michael Turyn)
383 - Merry madrigal tunes (Jeffrey Radcliffe)
385 - Bartholomew Fair (User:69.68.134.7)
385 - Bartholomew Fair (Alan Sinder)
391 - Haiduks (Professorbikeybike)
391 - Watered steel-blade (Neal Stephenson)
397 - J'ai besoin... (Jeremy Bornstein)
398 - ...Frenchman wears those sabots (Professorbikeybike)
400 - Winston Churchill (Neal Stephenson)
422 - fine golden beer from Pilsen (David C. Weichert)
424 - Chinese fortune-teller (Jeremy Bornstein)
427 - Fuggers and Hacklhebers (Neal Stephenson)
427 - Potosi in Peru (Neal Stephenson)
442 - arsch-leders (Jeremy Bornstein)
444 - sabotage (David C. Weichert)
449 - wedges-and-sledgehammers trick (Professorbikeybike)
450 - Walpurgisnacht (Jeremy Bornstein)
460 - that bloke in the myth (Jeremy Bornstein)
463 - L'Emmerdeur (Jeremy Bornstein)
475 - half a mile of Sophie (Alan Sinder)
477 - Ijselmeer (Neville Kuyt)
487 - old musketeer hat (Quillman)
512 - Ambassadorial standoff (Neal Stephenson)
513 - d'Avaux (Neal Stephenson)
518 - Ultima Ratio Regum (Jeremy Bornstein)
520 - Spij (Sander van Malssen)
533 - nerf du boeuf (jere7my tho?rpe)
536 - O wha-at the Hell was on God's mind... (Jeremy Bornstein)
552 - Duc d'Arcachon (Neal Stephenson)
552 - master-stroke (Jeremy Bornstein)
559 - Hotel d'Arcachon (Neal Stephenson)
576 - rotten fish (Neal Stephenson)
578 - over the horizon (Jeremy Bornstein)
588 - cancaniers (Jeremy Bornstein)
598 - If you are going to tap me on the shoulder (Jeremy Bornstein)
605 - Hava Nagila (Alan Sinder)
613 - the previous twelve years (Neal Stephenson)
614 - Knott had attempted to indict Nell Gwyn (Neal Stephenson)
621 - Brevis Demonstratio Erroris... (Craig Stuntz)
622 - Drs. Hammond and Griffin (Neal Stephenson)
631 - Feversham (Neal Stephenson)
638 - comte de Beziers (Neal Stephenson)
641 - Wilkins cypher (Neal Stephenson)
645 - Vôtre Majesté (St.CountZero)
646 - Oyonnax and Ozoir (Neal Stephenson)
647 - Boullaye and Beber (Neal Stephenson)
652 - Edouard de Gex (Neal Stephenson)
654 - a frightful purplish swelling (Al Ju)
654 - a certain déshabille (St.CountZero)
660 - What of Newton? (Neal Stephenson)
660 - Elixir Vitae and usquebaugh (jere7my tho?rpe)
662 - De Motu Corporum in Gyrum (Craig Stuntz)
673 - I have met the Duke of Monmouth... (Jeremy Bornstein)
674 - LIBRI I. CONICORUM APOLLONII (Neal Stephenson)
677 - Wren library (Doug Miller)
688 - Theologians? Sorcerers? (Neal Stephenson)
688 - hypotheses non fingo (Steven Horst)
697 - Dorset, June 1685 (Pronoiac)
704 - King's Own Black Torrent Guards (Neal Stephenson)
705 - made a slave. (Neal Stephenson)
707 - Huygens's house (Neal Stephenson)
724 - the Book is consumed by the flames (Neal Stephenson)
735 - Fall of Batavia (Neal Stephenson)
744 - letters to William of Orange (Neal Stephenson)
747 - A Swiss mathematician named Fatio (Neal Stephenson)
804 - in fact it was a vector (Olivier Gerard)
811 - Bonaventure Rossignol (Neal Stephenson)
826 - crypto-embroidery (Neal Stephenson)
829 - Eliza's journal entries (Neal Stephenson)
839 - Ernst von Pfung (Neal Stephenson)
847 - Belgian river-boats (St.CountZero)
850 - Eleanor and Caroline (Neal Stephenson)
855 - banger (Jeremy Bornstein)
855 - King of England in waterfront bar fight (Neal Stephenson)
857 - blowout fracture (Henry Pollock)
860 - Castle Upnor (Neal Stephenson)
864 - Glorious Revolution...Moment It All Happened (Neal Stephenson)
921 - Cromwell, Roger...(Alan Sinder)
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