Stephenson:Neal:Quicksilver:688:Theologians? Sorcerers? (Neal Stephenson)

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This account may be justly criticized for making Newton seem a little wacky. In future volumes we will see more of Newton's side of the story and get a more balanced view of all this. In modern critical parlance, Daniel Waterhouse is an "unreliable narrator." We are seeing everything here through Daniel's eyes, but his eyes are clouded by his hostility towards Alchemy, and so the picture drawn here is biased and melodramatic.