The discursive nature of his writing, together with significant plot and character complexity and an abundance of detail suggests a baroque writing style, which Stephenson brought fully to bear in the three-volume Baroque Cycle.

* Quicksilver ( 2003 ), volume I: The Baroque Cycle – Clarke Award winner, 2004 ; Locus SF Award nominee, 2004

* The Confusion ( 2004 ), volume II: The Baroque Cycle and winner 2005 Locus Award

* The System of the World ( 2004 ), volume III: The Baroque Cycle – Locus SF Award winner, 2005 ; Prometheus Award winner, 2005 ; Clarke Award nominee, 2005

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* Quicksilver ( novel ) by Neal Stephenson, the first volume of his The Baroque Cycle series

* In Neal Stephenson's three-volume The Baroque Cycle, 17th century alchemists like Isaac Newton believe that Solomon created a kind of " heavier " gold with mystical properties and that it was cached in the Solomon Islands where it was accidentally discovered by the crew of a wayward Spanish galleon.

In the third volume of The Baroque Cycle, The System of the World, a mysterious member of the entourage of Czar Peter I of Russia, named " Solomon Kohan " appears in early 18th century London.

Though the genre has evolved since its inception, the historical novel remains popular with authors and readers to this day ; bestsellers include Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey – Maturin series, Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth, and Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.

* Neal Stephenson's series The Baroque Cycle ( Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World ), published in 2003 and 2004, deals with the rise of the scientific worldview and the beginnings of modern capitalism in late-17th-and early-18th-century Europe.

** Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle

The influence and ambitions of John Wilkins were an important thread in the historical fiction trilogy The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson.

* Jean Bart appears as a character in the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson.

The Winter Queen also plays a seminal role in Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle by giving birth to many children.

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* In Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle, one of the lead characters, Jack Shaftoe, begins life as a mudlark.

Several characters in Neal Stephenson's trilogy The Baroque Cycle, particularly Quicksilver and The Confusion, play a role in the Monmouth Rebellion and its aftermath.

Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle also makes mention of Lillibulero's use as anti-Catholic propaganda.

It is the first volume of The Baroque Cycle, his late Baroque historical fiction series, succeeded by The Confusion and The System of the World ( both published in 2004 ).

Originally intended to be included in Cryptonomicon, Stephenson instead used the material as the foundation for Quicksilver, the first volume of the Baroque Cycle.

She thinks a full appreciation of the work is only possible within the context of the remaining novels of The Baroque Cycle, and compares the novel to works by Dorothy Dunnett, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, calling it " history-of-science fiction ".

* Quicksilver entry on The Baroque Cycle wiki.

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* An elaborate fictionalized description of wootz steel manufacture is presented in Neal Stephenson's book The Confusion, part of Stephenson's three-volume work The Baroque Cycle.

The Monument is a prominent setting in The System of the World, the third book in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.

* Daniel Waterhouse, a fictional character from Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle novels

development in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle trilogy.

* Eliza ( Stephenson character ), a socialite from Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle of novels

Jack Shaftoe ( also known, at various points, as King of the Vagabonds, L ' Emmerdeur, Half-Cocked Jack, Quicksilver, Ali Zaybak, Sword of Divine Fire, and Jack the Coiner ) is one of the three primary fictional characters in Neal Stephenson's 2, 686-page, Clarke Award-winning epic trilogy, The Baroque Cycle.

A fictional Barton has a small role in Neal Stephenson's novel The System of the World, the final installment in Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.

* Roger Comstock, a fictional character in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle of novels

In fiction, the House appears in Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle as Ravenscar House with Daniel Waterhouse as the architect in place of Hooke.

* Roger Comstock, Marquis of Ravenscar, a character in Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle

* Land sailing is featured in book three, Odalisque, of Neal Stephenson's novel Quicksilver, the first part of Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.

These multiple revolutions spread over Europe in the next several decades, beginning in Germany and then moving to Spain, France and England somewhat later, demarcating the beginning of what we now know as the Baroque musical era.

Those variants of Baroque prohibiting multiple leaps call this piece the Leaper, and restrict it to capturing the first enemy piece it encounters, provided the next space is empty or open.

In addition to the traditional Baroque pieces, Rococo has an Advancer piece that moves like a Queen, but captures the enemy piece it has run up next to, stopping just short of the piece taken.

Yet in spite of Josquin's colossal reputation, which endured until the beginning of the Baroque era and was revived in the 20th century, his biography is shadowy, and we know next to nothing about his personality.

By 1700, Hawksmoor emerged with a major architectural personality, and in the next 20 years he proved himself to be one of the great masters of the English Baroque.

The modern-day city was born in the next few decades, when beautiful Baroque buildings were built in place of the old medieval ones.

The influence of the art of the Classical period waxed and waned throughout the next two thousand years, seeming to slip into a distant memory in parts of the Medieval period, to re-emerge in the Renaissance, suffer a period of what some early art historians viewed as " decay " during the Baroque period, to reappear in a refined form in Neo-Classicism and to be re-born in Post-Modernism.

The city, designed by Francesco Laparelli on a grid plan, and built up over the next century, remains a particularly coherent example of Baroque urbanism.

Translations and annotated versions were common in France, Germany, as well as in the Netherlands among the students of Sweelinck, thus influencing the next generation of musicians who represented the early Baroque style.

* Old Rectory-The Old Rectory was built in 1784, next to the Reformed Church in rural Baroque style, with a nice arcaded porch.

The latest significant addition to the architectural landscape is the controversial 2001 Millennium Church, designed by Hungarian architect Imre Makovecz and located next to the Baroque Church of the Holy Cross.

Robert Wiersem of The Toronto Star called The Baroque Cycle a " sublime, immersive, brain-throttlingly complex marvel of a novel that will keep scholars and critics occupied for the next 100 years ".

Still later in the Baroque era, the word was used to designate an instrumental prelude, as described in the next section.

To the north-east of the castle building, next to the Nicholas Gate, there is the Lugiland Bastion ( which was a Gothic entrance gate in the 15th century ), a long building from the 17th century ( today a building of National Council of the Slovak Republic ), and a Baroque stable ( today a famous restaurant ).

After an encounter with Sigiswald Kuijken in 1972, he started playing the Baroque violin next to the modern violin.

The next sculptor, Johann Jakob Kirchner, was the first to make large-scale statues and figurines, especially of Baroque saints.