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A Cambridge historian, Elizabeth Vogelsang, is found drowned, clutching a glass prism in her hand. The book she was writing about Isaac Newton’s involvement with alchemy—the culmination of her lifelong obsession with the seventeenth century—remains unfinished. When her son, Cameron, asks... read more
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- Lydia Brooke
- Elizabeth Vogelsang
- Wasser
- Elizabeth
- Blick
- Garten
- Lydia
- Zimmer
- Glashütte
- Dilys Kite
- Newton
- Isaac Newton
- Sarah
- Maria
- Alchemie
- Will Burroughs
- Feuer
- Pepys
- Tod
- Grantham
- Ende
- Bett
- Tage
- Fenster
- Cowley
- Stelle
- Cameron Brown
- Boden
- Geschichte
- Dr. Brooke
- Morelli
- Richard Herring
- Wein
- Spiegel
- Lily Ridler
- Henry More
- Anthony
- Sommer
- Erde
- Preis
- Bibliothek
- Geld
- Ezekiel Foxcroft
- Greene
- Greswold
- Abraham Cowley
- Mr Brydon
- Emmanuel Scorsa
- Peter
- James Valentine
- Descartes
- William Clark
- Francis Barton
- Richard Westfall
- Chesterton
- Thoreau
- Elsie
- Humphrey Babington
- Wallace Stevens
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- Cambridge
- Farben
- London
- Trinity
- Trinity College
- Morazapin
- The Studio
- Stourbridge
- Venice
- Studio
- Stourbridge Fair
- Europe
- Brighton
- Prickwillow
- America
- England
- France
- Newmarket Road
- Measey
- Berlin
- Sturton Street
- Norfolk
- Woolsthorpe
- Murano
- Antwerp
- Florida
- Rag Ley Hall
- Histon
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Unrepaired and swollen with rain, the gate in the orchard wall refused to move until Cameron put his full weight against it and pushed, hard.
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Page Count: 368
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- Dewey: 823.914
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