The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World by Edward Dolnick

Author:Edward Dolnick [Dolnick, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: History, Science, General, Europe, World, Newton; Isaac, Religion, Religion and science, Royal Society Club (London; England), Religion & Science, Royal Society (Great Britain), Science - Europe - History - 17th century, Physicists - Great Britain, Religion and science - History - 17th century, Scientists - Great Britain, Religon
ISBN: 9780061719516
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011-02-07T10:00:00+00:00

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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