Gentle, Mary -- 1610: A Sundial in a Grave

More of same, at novel length. Swashbuckling, humiliation, and hermetic mathematicians who can predict the future. The book is overly obsessed with the protagonist's B&D obsession, but still a pounding historical adventure. Read this if you bounced off Neal Stephenson's recent boulders.

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