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The System of the World
The System of the World, a novel by Neal Stephenson, is the third and final volume in The Baroque Cycle.
The title alludes to the third volume of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which bears the same name.
The System of the World won the Locus Award for Best Science...
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Daniel Waterhouse
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...
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Jack Shaftoe
Jack Shaftoe is a fictional character featured in the novels of Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle.
Jack is an English vagabond turned soldier of fortune turned adventurer. He is highly intelligent (though uneducated), and has extraordinarily poor...
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Enoch Root
Enoch Root (Enoch the Red) is a fictional character from Neal Stephenson's novels The Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon. He is a religious leader by profession, but can handle himself in a fight, and is also competent in medicine, chemistry, and...
