Title: Fail
Review: This book is at best a tolerable essay on selected efforts in science in northern Europe in the last part of the seventeenth century. The author is capable of competent research but a complete failure at storytelling. There is nothing about the title of the book, the introduction, or anything whatsoever to warn you that whenever the chance is presented to move forward, the author moves backward. The same boring and pedantic details are presented again and again. How many times do we need to be reminded of something that was barely print worthy the first time? Finally, in place of any kind of summary or conclusion, the author presents the most useless information possible about unimportant persons, and then randomly jumps forward 300 years to something totally unconnected and prays in the manner of Newton that the reader will make some leap of faith and find reason. Also by the way, there are only passing references to Kepler on a few pages so don't trust everything you read either.
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