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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3922902, member: 57463"]My thanks to you all, as well. </p><p><br /></p><p>I did not know of that work, though everyone knows Stephenson's <i>Cryptonomicon, </i>which I started but could not get my head around.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, gosh, I hate it when the bar is raised. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks. My wife is a big mystery fan (editor, conventions, etc.) and she brought this to me when it came out. It was interesting. The secret private life of Sir Isaac Newton could include the suggestion of a dalliance with a young polymath. I read these biographies, but I got rid of them all a few years ago. I am sure that it was not in Berlinski, whose work was lackluster. </p><ul> <li>Berlinski, David. Newton's Gift: How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of the World. New York: Free Press, Simon and Schuster, 2000.</li> <li>Westfall, Richard S. Never at Rest: a Biography of Isaac Newton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.</li> <li>White, Michael. Isaac Newton: The Last Sorceror. Reading, Mass.: Helix Books, Perseus Books, 1997.</li> </ul><p>So, it was either Westfall or White.</p><p><br /></p><p>Allow me also to recommend the history <i>Newton and the Counterfeiter</i> by MIT journalism professor Thomas Levenson. Despite his claim to research at distant (if not arcane) libraries in the USA and Israel, it actually has very little that is not in the works known to numismatists by Sir John Craig, Deputy Master and Comptroller of the British Royal Mint.</p><ul> <li>Craig, Sir John. <i>Newton at the Mint.</i> Cambridge: University Press, 1946.</li> <li>Craig, Sit John. “Isaac Newton - Crime Investigator,” <i>Nature</i> 182, (19 July 1958), pages 149-152. </li> <li>Craig, Sir John. "Isaac Newton and the Counterfeiters." <i> Notes and Records of the Royal Society </i>(18;2), London: 1963, pages 136-145. </li> </ul><p>Craig writes like an entry in BMC Rome. Levenson delivers drama. Levenson is factual, not suppositional, but he uses active adjectives. In other work, Levenson wrote for BBC productions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3922902, member: 57463"]My thanks to you all, as well. I did not know of that work, though everyone knows Stephenson's [I]Cryptonomicon, [/I]which I started but could not get my head around. Oh, gosh, I hate it when the bar is raised. :( Thanks. My wife is a big mystery fan (editor, conventions, etc.) and she brought this to me when it came out. It was interesting. The secret private life of Sir Isaac Newton could include the suggestion of a dalliance with a young polymath. I read these biographies, but I got rid of them all a few years ago. I am sure that it was not in Berlinski, whose work was lackluster. [LIST] [*]Berlinski, David. Newton's Gift: How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of the World. New York: Free Press, Simon and Schuster, 2000. [*]Westfall, Richard S. Never at Rest: a Biography of Isaac Newton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. [*]White, Michael. Isaac Newton: The Last Sorceror. Reading, Mass.: Helix Books, Perseus Books, 1997. [/LIST] So, it was either Westfall or White. Allow me also to recommend the history [I]Newton and the Counterfeiter[/I] by MIT journalism professor Thomas Levenson. Despite his claim to research at distant (if not arcane) libraries in the USA and Israel, it actually has very little that is not in the works known to numismatists by Sir John Craig, Deputy Master and Comptroller of the British Royal Mint. [LIST] [*]Craig, Sir John. [I]Newton at the Mint.[/I] Cambridge: University Press, 1946. [*]Craig, Sit John. “Isaac Newton - Crime Investigator,” [I]Nature[/I] 182, (19 July 1958), pages 149-152. [*]Craig, Sir John. "Isaac Newton and the Counterfeiters." [I] Notes and Records of the Royal Society [/I](18;2), London: 1963, pages 136-145. [/LIST] Craig writes like an entry in BMC Rome. Levenson delivers drama. Levenson is factual, not suppositional, but he uses active adjectives. In other work, Levenson wrote for BBC productions.[/QUOTE]
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