The play "Isaac and Amanda" is among other things a love story
about Isaac Newton and a woman named Amanda. It also contains
material about the conflicts that Newton had with the scientist
Robert Hooke and the mathematician Leibniz. The latter conflict
deals with the issue of who should receive credit for the discovery
of Calculus. Furthermore, it deals with that period of Newton's
life when he was an official in the Mint (the equivalent in the
United States of the Treasury Department) trying to solve Britain's
currency problems and his difficulties with the master
counterfeiter Challoner and especially Challoner's wife. Finally,
it brings up the issue of Newton's year when he was so depressed
that some people say he had a nervous breakdown. Some of the
material in "Isaac and Amanda" is to be found in the play "On the
Shoulders of Giants," written by the same authors.
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