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This turns everything upside down for the typical Stephenson/Science Fiction reader.

As for the main historical events he's sticking to what we know - or what most historians can agree on anyway. I'm not an historian specialising in the baroque area, so I really don't know, but Stephenson seems to have gone a long way to pictures the events of the last of half of the 17th century, as correctly as possible within the limits of the novel. But the real and, from my point of view honest, answer is a bit more complicated. So I was a bit nervous when I started on Quicksilver – now much new, now much sense of wonder can there be in a historical novel? But for me the core has been the sense of wonder. Not that Stephenson is an idea man only, he also creates interesting characters, that you care about and writes good prose. Always something that would provoke some wonder and leave you wondering about the future (the real one and the fictional one) when you closed the book for the last time. Diamond Age has the Primer, Cryptonomicon has the economics of virtual money (or cryptography if you want), Snow Crash was an explosion of new and crazy stuff. The thing about Neal Stephenson is that he usually presents something new and fantastic that runs as the core of his books. Quicksilver is the first volume of The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson.