Name: The Clockwork Universe
Start: 2024-12-22T10:00:00-08:00
End: 2024-12-22T12:00:00-08:00

From the same author of the Rosetta Stone book and “Madness on the Couch”.

**Amazon description:**

In the late seventeenth century, chaos and disease reigned. Streets overflowed with filth and the murder rate was five times higher than it is today. Sickness was divine punishment, astronomy and astrology were indistinguishable, and the world’s most brilliant, ambitious, and curious scientists were tormented by contradiction. They believed in angels, devils, and alchemy, yet also believed that the universe followed precise mathematical laws that were as intricate and perfectly regulated as the mechanisms of a great clock.

The Clockwork Universe captures these thinkers as they wrestled with nature’s most sweeping mysteries. Award-winning writer Edward Dolnick illuminates the fascinating personalities of Newton, Leibniz, Kepler, and others, and vividly animates their momentous struggle during an era when little was known and everything was new—battles of will, faith, and intellect that would change the course of history itself.

**What to expect:**
Please read the book if you plan to join the Meetup. We use a set of open questions to guide the discussion and encourage everyone to participate in the conversation.

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