Engaging Committed Intelligent
Newton and the Counterfeiter
Author Thomas Levenson
Publication date: 14th April 2009
Client: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Music: Kevin McCleod
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 thirty years and made
his earth-
Newton was preceded to the city by a genius of another kind, the budding criminal William Chaloner. In the courts and streets of London and amid the tremors of a world being transformed by the ideas Newton himself had set in motion—the chase was on.