Finished "The Clockwork Universe - Isaac Newton, the Royal Society & the Birth of the Modern World" by Edward Dolnick ... a pleasure to read due to the style of the writing and the editing that went with it. It also feels a bit too America in its treatment of subject matter. If you've read The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson then you have a good sense of the time frame of the book.

Starting "The Quantum World (and why anything that can happen, does)" by Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw