Daniel Waterhouse is an English scientist and one of the three main characters of the Cycle. His evolution from the youthful, self-doubting son of a Puritan preacher into a politically and economically able rationalist is one of the primary themes of the Cycle. He describes himself thus: ...if Newton and Leibniz are sublime theologians, sir, I am an humble vicar. Technology is a sort of religious practice to me, a way of getting at the aeternal by way of the mundane. This page is stub. You can help The Baroque Cycle Wiki by expanding it.