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As Huygens, Barrow, Newton, and Hooke have all now been mentioned, this is as good a place as any to exhort people to buy the book "Huygens and Barrow, Newton & Hooke: Pioneers in mathematical analysis and catastrophe theory from evolvents to quasicrystals" ISBN 3-7643-2383-3, ISBN 0-8176-2383-3 by V.I. Arnol'd. Unfortunately for me I did not discover this remarkable little volume until after 99% of the Baroque Cycle had been written. Thanks to Henry Cohn for bringing it to my attention.