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Science 4 July 2008:
Vol. 321. no. 5885, pp. 40 - 41
DOI: 10.1126/science.1160708
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HISTORICAL FICTION:
Newton's Ghosts

Jan Golinski

Ghostwalk
Rebecca Stott
Spiegel and Grau, New York, 2007. 319 pp. $24.95. ISBN 9780385521062. Paper, $14.95. ISBN 9780385521079.
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, £12.99. ISBN 9780297851363. Paper, £7.99. ISBN 9780753823576.
Alchemy, Isaac Newton, and suspicious deaths in 17th- and 20th-century Cambridge are among the ingredients of this historical novel.
The reviewer is at the Department of History, University of New Hampshire, 20 Academic Way, Durham, NH 03824, USA. E-mail: jan.golinski{at}unh.edu

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