Quicksilver Reading CompanionBook 1: Quicksilver
The story alternates between Daniel Waterhouse's 1713 voyage aboard the Minerva and his memories of Cambridge in the 1660s and London in the 1670s, where he witnessed the birth of modern science alongside Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, and the Royal Society.
27 chapters · 28 annotated
New to the Baroque Cycle? Read the Before You Read primer on the historical context first.
Chapters
- p.3 Boston Common — 12 Oct 1713 · 54 notes
- p.24 Grantham — 1655 · 17 notes
- p.34 Massachusetts — 12 Oct 1713 · 38 notes
- p.51 Cambridge — 1661 · 16 notes
- p.63 Massachusetts — 12 Oct 1713 · 13 notes
- p.70 Cambridge — 1663 · 5 notes
- p.73 Minerva, Mass. Bay — Oct 1713 · 5 notes
- p.74 Cambridge — 1664 · 5 notes
- p.76 Minerva — Oct 1713 · 8 notes
- p.82 River Cam, Cambridge — 1665 · 17 notes
- p.90 Minerva — Nov 1713 · 7 notes
- p.93 London — The Plague Year, Summer 1665 · 35 notes
- p.112 Epsom — 1665-1666 · 46 notes
- p.147 Minerva — Nov 1713 · 3 notes
- p.150 Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire — Spring 1666 · 20 notes
- p.162 Minerva — Nov 1713 · 14 notes
- p.167 Charing Cross — 1670 · 24 notes
- p.182 Royal Society Meeting, Gresham's College — 12 Aug 1670 · 42 notes
- p.217 Minerva — Nov 1713 · 11 notes
- p.221 Gresham's College, Bishopsgate, London — 1672 · 24 notes
- p.236 College of the Holy & Undivided Trinity, Cambridge — 1672 · 39 notes
- p.260 London Bridge — 1673 · 14 notes
- p.279 Minerva — Nov 1713 · 7 notes
- p.283 Royal Society Meeting — 1673 · 1 note
- p.301 Minerva — Nov 1713 · 10 notes
- p.307 London — 1673 · 31 notes
- p.331 Minerva — Nov 1713 · 11 notes