Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

This is the thriller The Da Vinci Code should have been: an ambitious, intellectually omnivorous tale set in 17th and 18th Century England that pits scientific geniuses (Isaac Newton is a major character), duplicitous noblemen, grizzled mercenaries and saucy ladies against each other in a gargantuan, galactic page-turner about money, power, knowledge and the origins of the modern Western world.

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