In The Shadow Of Young Girls In Flower
Before I abandoned the series*, one part of Neal Stephenson’s Baroque cycle (apparently) impressed itself in my mind. It’s a part where Daniel Waterhouse tries to explain to Robert Hooke the reason why the public does not consider him to be as great a man as Isaac Newton:
“Newton has thought things that no man before has ever thought. A great accomplishm…
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