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PEOPLE OF THE WOLF (O'NEAL-GEAR): to Chapter 45. The People (the POV tribe in the story), led by Wolf Dreamer's aggressive twin brother Crow Caller, launch their first retaliatory attacks against the enemy tribe. The younger men get their first taste of violence and cruelty, and find that they like it. The passing of two beloved figures forces both Wolf Dreamer and Dancing Fox to make difficult choices. The shaman Heron, in her final vision, glimpses a warm land to the south - an alien landscape filled with strange creatures. Meanwhile, Ice Fire, the shaman of the enemy tribe, harbors a disturbing secret - and a mystical connection.
KING OF THE VAGABONDS (STEPHENSON): to Saxony, April 1684. Jack encounters an ostrich in Oesterreich, and makes his getaway from the Siege of Vienna with Eliza, whom he has liberated from a harem. Jack reveals the nature of an unfortunate accident that has left him short-changed in the romantic department. He and Eliza roam the Bohemian countryside through the winter of 1683 - '84, subsisting on a limited diet that leaves Eliza weak. Eliza, smuggling the precious ostrich plumes, hatches a plan to buy mining shares. They travel to Leipzig, where they meet a certain scholar, "the Doctor", who is working on certain mathematical discoveries rivaling those of the Englishman Newton. The Doctor is everything Newton is not - urbane, sophisticated, a ladies' man (which Newton definitely is not), and able to enjoy a trashy romance novel with the best of 'em.
Stewart (Calculus, 9th ed.) states that Leibniz "sought to develop a symbolic logic and system of notation that would simplify logical reasoning. In particular, the version of calculus that he published in 1684 established the notation (dy/dx) and the rules for finding derivatives that we use today." The priority dispute between Newton and Leibniz is one of the main themes of Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.
KING OF THE VAGABONDS (STEPHENSON): to Saxony, April 1684. Jack encounters an ostrich in Oesterreich, and makes his getaway from the Siege of Vienna with Eliza, whom he has liberated from a harem. Jack reveals the nature of an unfortunate accident that has left him short-changed in the romantic department. He and Eliza roam the Bohemian countryside through the winter of 1683 - '84, subsisting on a limited diet that leaves Eliza weak. Eliza, smuggling the precious ostrich plumes, hatches a plan to buy mining shares. They travel to Leipzig, where they meet a certain scholar, "the Doctor", who is working on certain mathematical discoveries rivaling those of the Englishman Newton. The Doctor is everything Newton is not - urbane, sophisticated, a ladies' man (which Newton definitely is not), and able to enjoy a trashy romance novel with the best of 'em.
Stewart (Calculus, 9th ed.) states that Leibniz "sought to develop a symbolic logic and system of notation that would simplify logical reasoning. In particular, the version of calculus that he published in 1684 established the notation (dy/dx) and the rules for finding derivatives that we use today." The priority dispute between Newton and Leibniz is one of the main themes of Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.
