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v - Baroque Cycle
vii - To the woman upstairs
ix - Many other scholarly works
xiii - Invocation
xvi - The London Map
1 - Those who assume hypotheses...
3 - October 12, 1713, 10:33:52 A.M.
3 - Jack Ketch
3 - ...dollop of hills...
3 - ...a squadron of lobsterbacks...
4 - ...On Sir Isaac Newton's temperature scale...
4 - new quicksilver-filled, sealed-tube thermometers
4 - ...pale gray eyes...
5 - ...the preacher's rantings...
5 - ...the last one...
5 - ...seen more than one city burn...
6 - Cartesian number-line
6 - bits of slaughtered animals
7 - Ben. Son of Josaiah.
8 - Barker
8 - King Carlos the Sufferer
9 - a loud fellow
9 - Charing Cross
9 - Restoration
10 - D.G. HISPAN ET IND REX
11 - Hypothesis of Vortices
11 - Gold knows...
12 - Minerva...
13 - Some Irish, the rest Angolan...
15 - Daniel Waterhouse
16 - Massachusetts Bay Colony Institute of Technologickal Arts
16 - Massachusetts Bay Colony Institute of Technologickal Arts
17 - ...Oh Dear...
18 - ...a specimen of white phosphorus...
18 - ...heard by their future Queen...
18 - ...heard by their future Queen...
18 - ..behaving as if Queen Anne were already dead and buried,...
20 - most disorderly
20 - Ask your father
20 - A harder question
21 - Killed a great deal of Irishmen
21 - granted all men - even Jews - the right to worship
21 - Navigation Act
21 - Mister Clarke had to get in line
21 - Francis Bacon, Galileo, Descartes
21 - John Comstock and Thomas More Anglesey
22 - Monsieur Le Febure
22 - T'was all rubbish
22 - anointed him with angelbalm, a thousand years old
22 - John Wilkins...Cryptonomicon
22 - Wizard's robes
25 - Clarke
26 - Cha, or chai, or the, or tay
29 - ...rub his prisoner's face...
29 - lace
31 - the muse
33 - show the boy Euclid...
35 - Sir John Floyer just invented it
36 - According to what scheme?
36 - It is the product of five primes.
36 - No linear indexing system
37 - ...less fraught with seasickness, pirates, scurvy, mass drownings...
40 - The priority dispute has turned vicious
40 - Hercules
43 - Fellow Armenian
48 - Demolishing the cathedral
46 - ...campus of domed pavilions
49 - John Comstock, drawn up an Act of Uniformity
60 - Isaac was pale and starlight
61 - a certain natural wave
64 - Mrs. Goose
64 - a Free Will man?
67 - Godfrey can imagine a hero-father
69 - well-trimmed ship
69 - lascars
71 - eyeball experiments
74 - wheel by which the ship is steered
75 - sundial synchronization
78 - Isaac Barrow
80 - Stourbridge Fair
83 - Translated into the Analytical language...
86 - Ashkenazi
91 - Atlantic is striped with currents
92 - The page ends abruptly.
93 - The Plague Year
94 - found God
96 - YOU AND I ARE BUT EARTH
99 - end of days
105 - rain of ticks
105 - grown from the corpses of rats
108 - Mayflower
110 - Walbrook
112 - at Epsom
114 - Hooke approaches
124 - Word arrived that Fermat had died
124 - Punishments
128 - Fly stuck to quill
139 - Systematic Alphabet
142 - symmetry of snowflakes
146 - the western horizon
150 - Newton at Woolsthorpe
150 - Newton at Woolsthorpe
160 - Regents Firewall
161 - Blunderbuss
165 - Zeno's Paradox
166 - Schooners
166 - Schooners
166 - Strange information
166 - flashes of light
166 - Teach
170 - CABAL
170 - John Locke was writing a constitution for Carolina
173 - Coffee
176 - Black Velvet
181 - In the House of Monsieur Le Febure
182 - Ned Ward
183 - Meeting of the Society
185 - Tarantella
187 - Samuel Pepys
195 - Comstock House
197 - Knott Bolstrood
197 - Knott Bolstrood
215 - The dog shit in the boat
222 - The sun becomes an oval
233 - Chirurgeon
236 - Once More Into the Breeches
246 - Apthorp---the second A
253 - What is to come?
257 - Jeova Sanctus Unus
270 - John Wilkins...
271 - Daniel saw gears, cranks, shafts.
278 - ...truth can be grasped as if pictured on paper.
299 - When you turn the crank?
305 - The Bernoullis
308 - Richard Comstock
316 - the first few terms of a series
318 - ...the monster
343 - Jack Ketch
367 - Imp of the Perverse
370 - Qwghlm
379 - ...elaborate lace undergarments
383 - Merry madrigal tunes
385 - Bartholomew Fair
385 - Bartholomew Fair
391 - Haiduks
391 - Watered steel-blade
397 - J'ai besoin...
398 - ...Frenchman wears those sabots
400 - Winston Churchill
422 - fine golden beer from Pilsen
424 - Chinese fortune-teller
427 - Fuggers and Hacklhebers
427 - Potosi in Peru
442 - arsch-leders
444 - sabotage
449 - wedges-and-sledgehammers trick
450 - Walpurgisnacht
460 - that bloke in the myth
463 - L'Emmerdeur
475 - half a mile of Sophie
476 - Damplatz
477 - Ijselmeer
487 - old musketeer hat
512 - Ambassadorial standoff
513 - d'Avaux
517 - Sluys
518 - Ultima Ratio Regum
520 - Spij
533 - nerf du boeuf
536 - O wha-at the Hell was on God's mind...
552 - Duc d'Arcachon
552 - master-stroke
559 - Hotel d'Arcachon
576 - rotten fish
578 - over the horizon
588 - cancaniers
598 - If you are going to tap me on the shoulder
605 - Hava Nagila
613 - the previous twelve years
614 - Knott had attempted to indict Nell Gwyn
621 - Brevis Demonstratio Erroris...
622 - Drs. Hammond and Griffin
622 - Sizar
631 - Feversham
638 - comte de Beziers
641 - Wilkins cypher
645 - Vôtre Majesté
646 - Oyonnax and Ozoir
647 - Boullaye and Beber
652 - Edouard de Gex
654 - a frightful purplish swelling
654 - a certain déshabille
660 - What of Newton?
660 - Elixir Vitae and usquebaugh
662 - De Motu Corporum in Gyrum
673 - I have met the Duke of Monmouth...
674 - LIBRI I. CONICORUM APOLLONII
677 - Wren library
688 - Theologians? Sorcerers?
688 - hypotheses non fingo
697 - Dorset, June 1685
704 - King's Own Black Torrent Guards
705 - made a slave.
707 - Huygens's house
724 - the Book is consumed by the flames
735 - Fall of Batavia
740 - polder
744 - letters to William of Orange
747 - A Swiss mathematician named Fatio
772 - Sghr
804 - in fact it was a vector
811 - Bonaventure Rossignol
826 - crypto-embroidery
829 - Eliza's journal entries
839 - Ernst von Pfung
839 - The Saarland
847 - Belgian river-boats
850 - Eleanor and Caroline
855 - banger
855 - King of England in waterfront bar fight
857 - blowout fracture
860 - Castle Upnor
864 - Glorious Revolution...Moment It All Happened
883 - bhang
886 - cosh
916 - time time
921 - Cromwell, Roger...
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The Confusion
The Confusion
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1 - Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri
3 - Cannons
3 - curiously modified
5 - outlandish johnson
7 - The new Pasha
8 - Algiers
8 - Moseh de la Cruz
8 - Bull's penis
9 - Syphilis cured by fever
9 - Diseases
29 - Jeronimo
32 - St. Lemuel
35 - The Cathedral of Mexico
35 - the Viceroy and his wife
44 - Partry
51 - praising Lieutenant Bart in a letter
67 - de Crépy and de Gex
84 - Bonanza
84 - Guadalquivir
85 - Bar of the Guadalquivir
88 - Ali Zaybak
93 - Chateau Juvisy
96 - de la Vegas
102 - Gerhard Mann
117 - stables of Versailles
123 - La Dunette
132 - Bart's promotion to Captain
142 - Plateau of Satory
144 - La Dunette
145 - the death of the Prince of Orange
146 - toast the victory of the French, the free English
150 - Upnor's anecdote
153 - Dead things...sauced
153 - de Jonzac
157 - de Sluys fire
301 - decompose such a number into its prime factors
360 - Rameau
494 - the Barton Road
504 - Arianism
579 - A woman you saw once
582 - Theatrum Chemicum
591 - Prehensile tails
617 - I have seen this very Lady in plays
681 - after we had installed Mr. Foot as Sultan
691 - yo-yo
693 - The only one who survived was one Elizabeth de Obregon
711 - thin sheets of gold
751 - The globe
754 - Two ships in the Pacifc
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The System of the World
The System of the World
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3 - Extremity of Cold
3 - Newcomen and Lostwithiel
3 - Newcomen
3 - Cloudesley Shovell
9 - a Dwarf out of some Saxon ring-saga
14 - The Saracen's Head
14 - Mr. Threader
36 - Waterhouse Square
52 - leave it a ruin
60 - Orney's ship-yard
64 - Science Crapp
69 - Kit-Cat Clubb
71 - Catherine Barton
122 - Pendulums
128 - Temple of Vulcan
139 - Brachistochrone Problem
248 - ...never_expected the Spanish Inquisition
307 - Time stops
333 - Off with his head
338 - Live out my days at Versailles or in the Escorial
360 - Trial of the Pyx
366 - Scylla! Charybdis!
392 - hot-swapped
393 - Smith and Jones
396 - bhang
421 - Sally Brown
469 - Python explain'd
469 - Effects on one Experimenter of the Plant...
480 - For the goods were to be fenced through an Arabian auction
492 - an entry in a log-book
496 - Extemporaneous Jottings
527 - A Capulet or a Montague
564 - The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
581 - came down like a javelin
609 - How many wizards...?
649 - hair-balls we used to pull from cows' bellies
658 - Jack has learnt the art of making red phosphorus
685 - is known as the Philosopher's Stone, or other terms
848 - dust of Solomonic Gold
875 - Leibniz-Archiv
886 - The journey began with a wizard walking into his door
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