Page 15:
"The German painter George Busch warned that the new star augured the coming of all sorts of calamities, such as "'inclement weather, pestilence, and Frenchmen.'"
Nick and I lol'ed.
How do you pronounce "zeitgeist"?
P 17: "Perhaps our eyes cannot see what our mind is not prepared to accept" makes me think of Gaiman's London Below Inhabitants and Pratchett's Death & Co.
Then, P 18:
"Many dismissed the apparition of 1572 as a tailless comet, some sort of atmospheric phenomenon, a condensation of the rising vapors of human sin..."
...I was not aware that human sin obeyed the laws of thermodynamics, much less state change, but I guess?
And P 19:
"Scientific genius, like musical genius or artistic genius, comes in all shapes, sizes, and types. Each one had his individual tint and coloring."
In my experience, all the scientific geniuses are all boring and human-shaped. I think the author lives in a more exciting world than I do.
And Tyco's from Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern? Seriously? (Okay so it's Rosenkrantz and Gyldenstierne but!)
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Current opinion: Contains disappointingly less science and more history than I'd hoped, but not too bad.
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lol, Frenchmen.
"zeitgeist"? I'd guess "zaytgayst", but I don't know for sure.
The weight of the vapor of human sin rises at a slighter higher rate than the number of humans on the planet.
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