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“They believed in angles and alchemy and the devil, and they believed that the universe followed precise, mathematical laws.” UniverseAngelsAlchemyPage 6 Book:The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World Source: The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
“The cliché has it that an unknown subject is a closed book, but Egypt was different. Egypt was an open book, with illustrations on every page, that no one knew how to read.” HumorHistoricalMysteriousFascinatingIllustrious Book:The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone Source: The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
“The question was not whether the world would end but how soon the end would come.” End Of The WorldRevelationPage 13 Book:The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World Source: The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World