sleddog218
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There is a series of books by Neal Stephenson "Quicksilver", "The Confusion", and "System of the World" in which Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, Fatio, etc are major characters. Long books, they cover the world from the late 1600's to early 1700's. Very entertaining, they take on the Royal Society, British, French, Dutch politics and royalty, monetary theory, some alchemy, etc. Neal Stephenson is considered a sci-fi writer, but I would call this series historic fiction. I just finished re-reading the series a week or so ago, which is where I remembered the characters. Still needed some help from Google, as the books don't really cover the watch-technology much.
Great reads, highly recommended, as is one of his other books, "Cryptonomicon" which is another historical fiction book taking place during WWII and modern day.
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