Daniel Waterhouse is a fictional character from Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle, a series of novels: Quicksilver, The Confusion and The System of the World.
Waterhouse is born in England in the mid 17th century to Drake Waterhouse, a prosperous Puritan merchant. Daniel is raised to be a minister, but instead is drawn to natural philosophy (i.e., science), which is just then emerging as an organized discipline. Helped partly by becoming a coll...
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Daniel Waterhouse
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Neal Stephenson
Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known for his speculative fiction works, which have been variously categorized science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and postcyberpunk. He has also written under the pseudonym of Stephen Bury.
Stephenson explores areas...