That would be really cool. Some further suggestions:
Ellen Klages, The Green Glass Sea and White Sands, Red Menace
In addition to Cryptonomicon, Stevenson's related epic trilogy of hugeness (The Baroque Cycle) has some really great stuff covering the English Enlightenment scientists.
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Ellen Klages, The Green Glass Sea and White Sands, Red Menace
In addition to Cryptonomicon, Stevenson's related epic trilogy of hugeness (The Baroque Cycle) has some really great stuff covering the English Enlightenment scientists.