The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick

Author:Edward Dolnick
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins US

Spectators out for a day’s entertainment might attend a puppet show or a hanging or, perhaps, a bear-baiting. Dogs attacked a chained bear, who flailed at his attackers. Bull-baiting was popular, too. The sport gave rise to the English bulldog, whose flat face made it possible for him to keep breathing without releasing his hold on the bull.

The microscope astonished all those who looked through it. Even a lowly flea, like this one drawn by Robert Hooke, revealed God’s perfect artistry. But when Hooke turned his microscope on man-made objects, they looked shoddy in comparison. The point of a needle (at right, top) was rough and pitted, as was a razor’s edge (at right, bottom). A printed dot on a page (at right, middle) was “quite irregular, like a great Splatch of London dirt.”

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