Is life (the universe and everything) just a series of predictable events, a chain of physics problems stringing all the way back to the Big Bang?... Last week I wrote about free will, or whether we ...

Bestselling author Dolnick (The Rescue Artist) focuses on the 17th century and the giants of early science—Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, and particularly Newton and Leibniz, whose independent invention ...

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London, 1660 -- Satan's claws -- The end of the world -- "When spotted death ran arm'd through every street" -- Melancholy streets -- Fire -- God at His drawing table -- The idea that unlocked the ...