With a few exceptions such as Isaac Barrow, none of them would have had any use for Isaac's sundial, because it didn't look like an old sundial, and they'd prefer telling time wrong the Classical way to telling it right the newfangled way.

• Author: Neal Stephenson
• From: Quicksilver
• Page: 115
• Kindle Location 1763-65
• Highlited: Tuesday, November 13, 2018, 11:07 PM