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    Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
    Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
    Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
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    Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist

    By Thomas Levenson

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    A “thoroughly surprising” chapter in the life of Isaac Newton, with a “vivid re-creation of 17th-century London and its fascinating criminal haunts” (Providence Journal).

    When renowned scientist Isaac Newton takes up the post of Warden of His Majesty’s Mint in London, another kind of genius—a preternaturally gifted counterfeiter named William Chaloner—has already taken up residence in the city, rising quickly in an unruly, competitive underworld. In the courts and streets of London, and amid the tremors of a world being transformed by ideas Newton himself set in motion, Chaloner crosses paths with the formidable new warden.
     
    An epic game of cat and mouse ensues in Newton and the Counterfeiter, revealing for the first time the “remarkable and true tale of the only criminal investigator who was far, far brainier than even Sherlock Holmes: Sir Isaac Newton during his tenure as Warden of the Royal Mint . . . A fascinating saga” (Walter Isaacson).
     
    “I absolutely loved Newton and the Counterfeiter. Deft, witty and exhaustively researched.” —Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
     
    “A delicious read, featuring brilliant detective work and a captivating story . . . A virtuoso performance.” —Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind
     
    “Through a page-turning narrative, we witness Isaac Newton’s genius grappling with the darker sides of human nature, an all too human journey reflecting his deepest beliefs about the cosmic order.” —Brian Greene, author of The Fabric of the Cosmos
     
    “Levenson transforms inflation and metallurgy into a suspenseful detective story bolstered by an eloquent summary of Newtonian physics and stomach-turning descriptions of prison life in the Tower of London. . . . [The book] humanizes a legend, transforming him into a Sherlock Holmes in pursuit of his own private Moriarty.” —The Washington Post
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 12, 2010
    ISBN9780547416618
    Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
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    Thomas Levenson

    Thomas Levenson is the author of Newton and the Counterfeiter, a bestselling book about Newton's time as Master of the Royal Mint. He published The Hunt for Vulcan with Head of Zeus in 2016, a book shortlisted for the Science Book Prize. He teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a frequent visitor to London.

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    • 3/5
      I must say I was left a little disappointed after the initial excitement when I first picked up "Newton and the Counterfeiter".

      Educational - yes. Levenson has certainly done his research on this little know aspect of Newton's career. Indeed, the book provides a very good biography covering the whole of his life.

      Enjoyable - this is where I felt let down, for a number of reasons I think:
      (a) the first half of the book is a prelude to Newton's time at the Mint. All very good background, but for a book titled "Newton and the Conterfeiter" I found myself in extended suspension waiting for the "real" story to begin.
      (b) Levenson's style is very correct (academically). A stream of facts and quotes woven together very carefully to build a solid chronology. It seems Levenson takes pains to avoid any possibility that he could be accused of exaggeration, hyperbole or drawing unfounded conclusions or insights. This can be a real problem given the very thin historical evidence that remains in relation to many aspects of the story (he annoyingly draws "no conclusion" in a number of places). As an authoritative reference this works well, but unfortunately it also results in a style that I personally found hard to digest: it didn't stimulate my imagination or draw me in emotionally. All the protagnosits remain just dry characters from history.

      Well, I do know much more about Newton's life after reading the book, but it turned out not to be what I expected. However, there is fertile ground here for someone to write a ripping "historical fiction" based around these events. I think that is the book I would prefer...
    • 2/5
      I found the brief biographical portions about Newton to be very interesting but in general the book did not meet my expectations. I had anticipated a detective type story about the search for one of the most notorious counterfeiters in England and found a very anti-climactic brief history instead.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic book! Thoroughly enjoyed this. Levenson provides a detailed, engaging account of Newton's life and circumstances leading up to his employment with the Royal Mint, painting Newton as a vibrant and relate-able, if idiosyncratic character. Levenson does an excellent job of fleshing out Newton's nemesis Chaloner, making excellent use of quotes from Chaloner and his contemporaries. The narrative is engaging, a fun read start to finish - highly recommended!
    • 4/5
      This is an elegant microhistory, built around a lesser-known period in the life of a famous person. At its core, this book tells the story of Isaac Newton's career as Warden of the Royal Mint, 1696 - 1699. That was well after the mathematical and scientific work that made him famous, and before his leadership of the Royal Society. Levenson tells the story with great discipline, highlighting interesting side paths but staying of the main track of his particular focus: Newton's efforts to bring to bay a counterfeiter named William Chaloner. In the process, he offers a summary of Newton's life up to that point; a survey of English monetary policy at the time; and insights into how the legal system actually worked.The strengths of the books are its very careful research, spirited writing, and narrative discipline. The weakness of the book is the lopsidedness of its core story: Chaloner is so overmatched, and left so few traces of himself in the historical record, that Levenson has to work extra hard to create a sense of drama (though he mostly succeeds). I would have been interested to learn more details about two tangents -- Newton's alchemical explorations, and his management of a major recoining operation that appears to have saved England from financial collapse -- but probably correctly, Levenson is careful not to let his story get bogged down. It's hard to imagine this particular story, Newton against Chaloner, being told any better than this.
    • 4/5
      A nice introduction to Newton's scientific and alchemical work, with a deeper exploration of his work as Warden, and later, Master, of the Mint than some other biographies (many of which tend to focus on the science and gloss over the other aspects of his life), but not quite as much detail about his time at the Mint and a bit more of the science than I was hoping for (having read some of those other biographies).I did enjoy the read, however, and many of the details of life in the seventeenth century were very good. The notes are also very good, with lots of pointers to other sources, some of which I look forward to reading.
    • 4/5
      Everyone knows about Sir Isaac Newton's great scientific discoveries, but few know about his later career as an official working for the English mint. He took the job at a time when the English economy was in a serious crisis. They were literally running out of money, due in large part to the fact that the silver in English coins could be melted down and sold for a profit in France where silver prices where higher, and a shocking number of the coins still left in circulation were in fact counterfeit. Part of Newton's job was to ferret out and prosecute counterfeiters, a job he apparently took very seriously. This book focuses largely on that part of his life, and particularly on his pursuit of an especially notorious and wily counterfeiter named William Chaloner. It's not an action-packed detective story, really, but that's fine. The background on Newton's life and career (or, rather, careers) and on the economic problems and criminal doings of the time is all extremely interesting. And Chaloner is an entertainingly audacious criminal, although the amusement value in watching him and Newton try to outmaneuver each other is mitigated a bit by the knowledge that counterfeiting carried the death penalty at the time.All in all, this is a nicely written, interesting look at an odd little corner of history.
    • 5/5
      In 1695, Sir Isaac Newton--gravity's tamer, master mathematician, and secret alchemist--left Cambridge for London to take up a new job: Warden of the English Mint. While most were content to farm out the day-to-day work to clerks, Newton brought his considerable skills to bear on the dual problem of the dwindling amount of English metal currency in circulation and the opposite and equally increasing amount of counterfeit coins being produced by London's criminal underworld. It is in the latter cause that Newton met his Moriarty--William Chaloner. Thomas Levenson does a very good job of weaving the stories of these two men together. Part biography, part detective novel, the book is an excellent read and illuminates a part of Newton's life that is woefully under-documented.
    • 4/5
      Excellent book about a little known aspect of Newton's career. Most scientists know that Newton was Warden of the Mint later in life, but I had never known how colorful his career there had been.
    • 4/5
      Interesting historical novel.
    • 4/5
      Levenson tells the story of Newton's life, with a particular focus on his role as Warden of the Mint, after he reached the zenith of his scientific career. In particular, there was one clever counterfeiter that Newton was determined to catch.Like a lot of popular history books, this one builds up a story, but then doesn't really deliver on its promises - Levenson uses the idea of Newton acting like Sherlock to catch a criminal genius to rope in his readers, but it turns out that the true story is more mundane. The story is still interesting, and I was especially interested in the history of British currency and Newton's role in it. But Newton's actual detective work in tracking down Chaloner isn't really all that exciting. Nonetheless, this was an informative and interesting book, and I would much rather it be less-than-thrilling than full of lies.
    • 4/5
      Newton and the Counterfeiter focuses on the scientist's second, lesser-known career as Warden of the Mint, having earned that plum job in his fifties as a reward for being a well-known genius. In his capacity as Warden, Newton sets about reforming the coining processes. The author shows how Newton's willingness to get his hands dirty led him to experiment to discover the most efficient coining practices. This to me was the most interesting aspect of the book, but the author doesn't dwell too much on it.In his other capacity as Warden, Newton was responsible for investigating and prosecuting counterfeiters. Levenson shows how Newton applied the logical processes he used in his scientific work to discover and make legal cases against these counterfeiters. In particular, the book focuses on one William Chaloner, whose history of crimes wouldn't exactly inspire the title of master criminal. Nor would it inspire a book if his antagonist wasn't named Newton, because, let's face it, Newton is the star of the book and deserves to be. Levenson works awfully hard to portray Chaloner as a criminal worthy of Newton's intellect, but I didn't buy it -- he seemed to me like just another ambitious, yet petty thief.In any case, as far as this book goes, the counterfeiter serves merely as an excuse to put Newton into a role one would normally not associate him with. It was fascinating to read about Newton having to deal with the interrogation and prosecution of criminals.Newton and the Counterfeiter is written in a very clear style, and because its focus is on a kind of dramatic narrative, it was a much easier read than a typical biography. I loved it and would recommend it to anyone. (I docked it one star because the text lacked inline markers for endnotes).
    • 3/5
      Having read several biographies on Isaac Newton, it was enjoyable to read into a selective aspect of his career. Other biographies make mention of his time as Warden of the Mint, but haven't gone into the detail of this book. Some biographical context given to his pre-Mint days (i.e. him being one of the true genius giants of all-time!) and was interesting that the author was able to find some much material on the villain as well.
    • 4/5
      This is a very interesting book at Sir Issac Newton's career as Warden, then Master, of the Mint in the late 1600s. The author has obviously researched his subject very well, and provides lots of information about court proceedings, the monetary system and other aspect on life in London at the time. The book is well written, and the story of Newton's pursuit of counterfeiters, in particular William Chaloner, is a great read.
    • 5/5
      Newton was of course one of the greatest minds in human history. His discoveries about gravity and thermodynamics still influence our lives greatly today. But most would not know that in his later years, Newton took on a much more prosaic job, reforming England's shambolic currency and tracking down the coiners and counterfeiters who were threatening to bankrupt the country. As Warden of the Royal Mint, Newton brought his vast, cool intellect to the ruthless pursuit of counterfeiters, in particular, one William Chaloner, whose genius for creating fake currency and his cleverness in avoiding conviction bespoke a man with sufficient wit and intelligence to confound even one of the greatest intellects of all time. However, Newton ruthlessly and determinedly wore Chaloner down until eventually he had him in the dock facing a certain death sentence without a legal leg to stand on. This is a great story of sheer intellect versus criminal cunning, it rounds out the picture of Newton for those who can only visualize him as an absent-minded professor sitting under an apple tree.
    • 4/5
      Newton never married. Perhaps he fell in love once. We have many many pages of his journals and papers and there is nothing there that reflects that he ever did.

      What he did have was a huge drive to know. Eating and sleeping were just distractions in the way of his study of the universe.

      Beyond that huge drive is a lesser known career running the mint for the Nation of England and tracking down couterfeiters. This book tells this story within the contect of the life of Newton and uses the most notorious counterfeiter as a villain. Sherlock Holmes vs Moriarty, but Moriarty never stood a chance as Newton, beaten once, mounted a mountain of evidence agaist the counterfeiter and in the end, brought him down.
    • 4/5
      Isaac Newton was a complex man. Every student learns of (but few master) the laws bearing his name that govern the motion of objects from bullets to planets. Many know that the same great mind invented calculus along the way toward his Principia Mathematica. But Newton was also intrigued with alchemy throughout his life, and filled notebook after notebook with descriptions of experimental results. He may even have had a mental breakdown as a consequence of depression after a promising route to transmutation collapsed. Newton never married, and little is known of any life we would call "personal", but Thomas Levenson has unearthed a rich trove of original material related to Newton's job in later life, Warden of the Mint. At the time (1687-1702), England was fighting a war with France while her currency was both being counterfeited and undermined by silver/gold arbitrage. The greatest physicist turned into a relentless and ferocious defender of the coin of the realm. He used intense coercion to induce counterfeiters to turn on one another and often obtained the death penalty for those convicted. Levenson focuses on a particular notorious culprit, William Chaloner, but it was clear that Newton was fighting a host of clever counterfeiters, and that he waged an effective, ferocious defense of England's money.
    • 4/5
      Portrays Newton in an entirely new light. I had thought his life started and ended with the Principia, and that his work at the Mint was just a honorary post. But this shows that he was as much a genius detective as he was a physicist.
    • 3/5
      reads like a detective story of another side to Newton for those who like adventure and intrigue in their stories of the past
    • 5/5
      A very interesting biography of one of greatest scientists and a multi-faceted personality.
    • 4/5
      It did take me a while to read Newton and the Counterfeiter but it was not the book's fault. Levenson starts his account of Newton crime fighting efforts prior to Newton's appointment to the Royal Mint. He spends a little time introducing the reader to Newton through his more well known roles, scientist, author, and mathematician. He moves then into a discussion of Newton's near obsession for a time with alchemy. Finally Levenson spends about two-thirds of the book on the topic of the title, Newton, his time at the Royal Mint, and his efforts to bring the counterfeiter, William Chaloner, to answer for his crimes.I did enjoy this book.
    • 5/5
      Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientistby Thomas LevensonThis is a terrific and informative book about a great man of science in a field I wouldn't have guessed him to be in but like every thing else he did, he did it brilliantly! It starts with his early life that wasn't a cheerful one at all. He leaves to go away to school at 14 and never returns. He just keeps making remarkable progress but that makes enemies and those that admire his work.He is eventually offered a job to protect the Mint. Due to all the counterfeiters of the times, this was a real issue. How the government was dealing with the problem was almost as bad. Newton didn't want the job. The pay was excellent and he couldn't say no.There was a certain counterfeiter that was Newton's arch enemy, in a matter of speaking. They battled each other for years!This book was wonderful in giving the reader a look at what life was like during that period and what counterfeiters were doing and how it effected everyday life. It also gave us a look at what Newton was like, a more personal, up close, look.I enjoy history books that makes me feel like I am there and this one does! Highly recommend!
    • 3/5
      I was hoping to love this book, but it took about ten times longer to read than a comparably sized fiction book, and was so dense with information I could only read about a chapter at a time before falling asleep. (Sorry, it’s true)

      The first hundred or so pages are a thumbnail sketch of Newton’s life and work - and the author gets my kudos for distilling it down, as there have been possibly millions of pages written about Sir Isaac Newton and his monumental accomplishments. The remainder of the book covers the period when Newton left his impoverished tenure at Cambridge and went to London to serve as Warden of The Royal Mint. Finance people will be most interested in Newton’s role as overseer of the great re-coinage of England’s currency and his part in the issuance of some of the first bonds and credit notes ever in use.

      Newton spent eight long years trying to capture and prosecute the flamboyant and devilishly clever counterfeiter William Chaloner, it was a bit like a 17th century version of ‘Catch Me if You Can’…. but much more slow, in a time without car chases and police officers…. and Newton reminded me of a religious Sheldon from ‘The Big Bang Theory’.

      Ironically, Newton (who some claim was the smartest man to ever live), lost the equivalent of forty years’ salary in a Pyramid scheme known as the South Sea Company Bubble.
    • 3/5
      Mention Isaac Newton and people will talk of his work on gravity, optics and the calculus. All these achievements ocurred in his early and middle years. What most do not know is in later life Newton was the Warden of the Mint in London and achieved great results in re-coining the English currency, raising its value by stabilising it and driving down the level of counterfeiting.Levenson’s book, ‘Newton and the Counterfeiter’, covers this period at the Mint, centering the narrative on a battle with William Chaloner, considered a great counterfeiter of the time. This book has a strong narrative flow that reads almost like a thriller. For me it never quite makes it to that level.The first third of the book covers Newton’s life before he became Warden. This period is covered in great detail in many other biographies of Newton and Levenson never really shows the relevance of what Newton knew or became to his work at the Mint.Levenson admits the sources of information about Chaloner are few and unreliable. He also tells us that Newton wrote thousands of words of notes about his time and activities at the Mint. The book is very sparse on Newton’s own words with more quotes from the archives on Chaloner than on Newton. I would have liked more quotes from the man himself.This is a readable book covering an interesting and little known perod of Newton’s life, but it left me wanting more rather than feeling I had been given a definitive picture.
    • 4/5
      This book focuses on a part of Isaac Newton's life that never got much attention from previous biographers: his time at the Mint (i.e. the place that makes British coins) and what he did there. As the title suggests, he spent a lot of time being a detective, finding counterfeiters and bringing them to justice. But that's not the only thing he did at the Mint. He also led a massive "re-coining" operation which replaced all of Britain's old coins with newer, harder-to-counterfeit ones. It was a huge logistical and project management task, and the guy who was originally supposed to be doing it (because he got the job as a plush paid political appointment) was incompetent and uninterested.

      In other words, this book could have been titled Isaac Newton, Project Manager.

      The publishers probably chose a better title.
    • 4/5
      Can a book about Isaac Newton and his time as the Warden of the British Mint be a page truning mystery. The answer is a definite, yes. Starting with his early days and using his deveopment of ideas for the Principia as a stepping off point, Thomas Levenson has written a concise but excellent book about Newton and his clash with the preminent "coiner" of his day, William Chaloner. In the process of managing the Mint, he resucitates the British coin based economy in dire danger due to clipping and counterfeiting the vulnerable silver based currency of the day. While doing so, he posits an economy based on paper currency as well as becoming possibly the first big city cop even before the word was coined, pun intended. His methodology was that of empirical analysis; to observe, to measure, then, to act on the data. In appying this approach, He mastered every dirty job that law enforcemnt rrequires today. He used surveilance, informers, minute and thorough collection of evidence coupled with skilled interogation with a little bit of help from the very venal justice of the time to finally bring Chaloner to the gallows.

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    Newton and the Counterfeiter - Thomas Levenson

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