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Newton and the Counterfeiter (Paperback, Main)
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Already famous throughout Europe for his theories of planetary
motion and gravity, Isaac Newton decided to take on the job of
running the Royal Mint. And there, Newton became drawn into a
battle with William Chaloner, the most skilful of counterfeiters, a
man who not only got away with faking His Majesty's coins (a crime
that the law equated with treason), but was trying to take over the
Mint itself. But Chaloner had no idea who he was taking on. Newton
pursued his enemy with the cold, implacable logic that he brought
to his scientific research. Set against the backdrop of early
eighteenth-century London with its sewers running down the middle
of the streets, its fetid rivers, its packed houses, smoke and fog,
its industries and its great port, this dark tale of obsession and
revenge transforms our image of Britain's greatest scientist.
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