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I highly recommend The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. It's a work of fiction but looks at the scientific revolution in England with a bit of alchemy, piracy/thieving and the beginnings of financial "credit". I'm not even a big history fan but I found the trilogy very entertaining.
Quicksilver - 960 pages
The Confusion - 848 pages
The System of the World - 908 pages
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