In 1695, Isaac Newton, already renowned as the greatest mind of his age, made a surprising career change. He left quiet Cambridge, where he had lived for 30 years and made his earth-shattering discoveries, and moved to London to take up the post of Warden of His Majestys Mint.
Newton was preceded to the city by a genius of another kind, the budding criminal William Chaloner. Thanks to his preternatural skills as a counterfeiter, Chaloner was rapidly rising in London's highly competitive underworld, at a time when organized law enforcement was all but unknown and money in the modern sense was just coming into being. Then he crossed paths with the formidable new warden.
Chapter 2: "The Prime of My Age"
Chapter 3: "I Have Calculated It"
Chapter 4: "The Incomparable Mr. Newton"
Chapter 5: "The Greatest Stock of Impudence"
Chapter 6: "Every Thing Seem'd to Favour His Undertakings"
Chapter 7: "All Species of Metals ... from This Single Root"
Chapter 8: "Thus You May Multiply to Infinity"
Chapter 9: "Sleeping Too Often by My Fire"
Chapter 10: "The Undoing of the Whole Nation"
Chapter 11: "Our Beloved Isaac Newton"
Chapter 12: "Stifling the Evidence Against Him"
Chapter 14: "A Thing Impossible"
Chapter 15: "The Warden of the Mint Is a Rogue"
Chapter 16: "Boxefulls of Informations in His Own Handwriting"
Chapter 17: "I Had Been Out Before Now but for Him"
Chapter 18: "A New and Dangerous Way of Coining"
Chapter 19: "To Accuse and Vilify the Mint"
Chapter 20: "At This Rate the Nation May Be Imposed Upon"
Chapter 21: "He Had Got His Business Done"
Chapter 22: "If Sr Be Pleased..."
Chapter 23: "If I Die I Am Murthered"
Chapter 24: "A Plain and Honest Defence"
Chapter 25: "O I Hope God Will Move Yor Heart"
Epilogue: "He Could Not Calculate the Madness of the People"
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