http://www.bookgeeks.co.uk/2009/10/06/simon-as-review-newton-and-the-counterfeiter-by-thomas-levenson/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:25:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.bookgeeks.co.uk/2009/10/06/simon-as-review-newton-and-the-counterfeiter-by-thomas-levenson/comment-page-1/#comment-3224 Simon Parker Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:34:24 +0000 http://www.bookgeeks.co.uk/?p=4248#comment-3224 I love the idea of this book and can't wait to get hold of it, as it ticks so many of my boxes - history, science, intrigue, London and a rattling good story. Surely anyone who read Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle will be up for this too won't they? I love the idea of this book and can’t wait to get hold of it, as it ticks so many of my boxes – history, science, intrigue, London and a rattling good story. Surely anyone who read Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle will be up for this too won’t they?

]]> http://www.bookgeeks.co.uk/2009/10/06/simon-as-review-newton-and-the-counterfeiter-by-thomas-levenson/comment-page-1/#comment-3221 Tom Levenson Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:56:56 +0000 http://www.bookgeeks.co.uk/?p=4248#comment-3221 My thanks for such a generous notice. I'm very glad that in your eyes, at least, I achieved one of my chief ends -- to place Newton into a much broader historical story than that with which he is usually connected. My thanks for such a generous notice. I’m very glad that in your eyes, at least, I achieved one of my chief ends — to place Newton into a much broader historical story than that with which he is usually connected.

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