connected with a rupture in that relationship. A similar interpretation appears in Michael White's popular biography Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer (1997). On the other hand, historian Scott Mandelbrote writes: Mandelbrote's judgment has found support in later work by professional historians specializing on Newton, including Robert Iliffe and William R. Newman. According to Newman, Fatio's connection with Newton has been treated in several works of historical fiction. He appears as a supporting character in Michael White's novel Equinox (2006), in Neal Stephenson's trilogy The Baroque Cycle (2003–04), and in Gregory Keyes's novel series The Age of Unreason (1998–2001). Works Books Fatio was the author of the following works, published in book form during his lifetime: Epistola de mari æneo Salomonis ("Letter on Solomon's Brazen Sea"), in Edward Bernard's De Mensuris et Ponderibus antiquis Libri tres ("On Ancient Measures and Weights, in three books"), 8vo, Oxford, 1688 Lineæ brevissimæ descensus investigatio geometrica duplex, cui addita est investigatio geometrica solidi rotundi in quo minima fiat resistentia ("A two-fold geometrical investigation of the line of briefest descent, to which is added a geometric investigation of the solid of revolution that produces the minimum resistance"), 4to, London, 1699 Fruit-walls improved by inclining them to the horizon, by a member of the Royal Society (signed N. F. D.), 4to, London, 1699 N. Facii Duillerii Neutonus. Ecloga. ("N. Fatio de Duillier's Newton. Eclogue."), 8vo, Oxford, 1728 Navigation improved: being chiefly the method for finding the latitude at sea as well as by land, by taking any proper altitudes, with the time between the observations, fol., London, 1728 With Jean Allut, Elie Marion, and other of the "French prophets", Fatio issued a prophecy with the title Plan de la Justice de Dieu sur la terre dans ces derniers jours et du relévement de la chûte de l'homme par son péché ("Plan of God's Justice upon the earth in these last days, and of the release of man's fall by his sin") 2 parts, 8vo, 1714, of which a Latin version appeared during the same year. Periodicals In periodicals Fatio published the following works: Lettre sur la manière de faire des Bassins pour travailler les verres objectifs des Telescopes ("Letter on the manner of making basins for grinding the objective glasses of telescopes"), Journal des sçavans, Paris, 1684 Lettre à M. Cassini touchant une lumière extraordinaire qui paroît dans le Ciel depuis quelques années ("Letter to Mr. Cassini