Stephenson:Neal:Quicksilver:Godfrey William Waterhouse

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Godfrey William Waterhouse is named for his father Daniel's friend Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz. The child seems to view the way his mechanically geared father makes use of Wilkins' Cryptonomicon as a doorstop as appropriate. Friend to Ben Franklin in Newtowne Mass.

His tussle with young Ben over apples triggers a memory of Enoch Root's about Isaac Newton at grade school earlier in 1654.