Download or read book Quicksilver written by Neal Stephenson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe -- in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.