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Finished "Clockwork Universe" Edward Dolnick. Billed as a history of the beginnings of the Royal Society, Dolnick follows Isaac Newton's eccentric, secretive genius as he integrated and improved on the works by Kepler and Galileo.
I never appreciated the genius of Galileo or Kepler. I knew Galileo as the "Guy who dropped the rocks off the Tower of Pisa" and Kepler "did something with the planets, right?" Dolnick does a commendable job of illustrating the discoveries of three giants of Science (yeah, I'll defend that term).
For history of science readers.
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