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

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by Thomas Levenson


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  Index

  Abbot, John, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Acta Eruditorum (journal), [>], [>]

  Act Against Multipliers law, [>]

  Agriculture, [>], [>]

  Alchemist, The (Jonson), [>]

  Alchemy

  Boyle's interest in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  counterfeiting currency likened to, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Fatio's interest in, [>]

  Locke's interest in, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Newton's interest in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  private language of, [>]–[>]

  secrecy associated with, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Andrewes, Will, [>]

  Anglican Church, [>], [>], [>]

  Anne (princess of England), [>]

  Antimony, [>]

  Apple tree, [>]–[>], [>]

  Arbuthnot, John, [>]

  Archer, John, [>]–[>]

  Aristotle, [>], [>]

  Arthur, John, [>]

  Asgill, John, [>]

  Babson, Charles, [>]

  Ball, Francis, [>]–[>], [>]

  Ball, Mary, [>]

  Bank notes, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Bank of England, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Bank of Sweden, [>]

  Barometers, [>]

  Barrow, Isaac, [>]

  Bate, John, [>]

  Bedford, Duke of, [>]

  Beesley, George, [>]

  Beggar's Opera, The (Gay), [>]

  Bentley, Richard, [>
], [>]

  Bernoulli, Johann, [>]

  Bibliothèque universelle, [>]

  Birmingham (England), [>]–[>]

  "Birmingham groats," [>]

  Blackford, William, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Blacking of old clothes, [>]–[>]

  Blondeau, Peter, [>]–[>]

  "Bloody code," [>]

  Bohun, Edmund, [>], [>]

  Bond, Elizabeth, [>]–[>]

  Bond, Samuel, [>]

  Boyle, Robert, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Brady, Edward, [>]

  Briot, Nicholas, [>]

  Butler, Mr. (printer), [>]–[>]

  Calculus, [>], [>]

  Cambridgeshire (England), [>]

  See also Cambridge University

  Cambridge University (England), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  See also Trinity College (Cambridge University)

  Capital punishment

  for Chaloner, [>]–[>]

  for coin clipping, [>], [>], [>]

  for counterfeiting coins, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  for felony theft, [>]

  juries reluctant to convict in face of, [>], [>]

  methods of, in England, [>], [>]

  for setting up a coining press, [>]–[>]

  Carroll, Sean, [>]

  Carter, Katherine Matthews, [>], [>]

  Carter, Thomas, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  in pillory, [>], [>], [>]

  Casanova, Giacomo, [>]

  Catchmead, Mr., [>]–[>]

  Catholicism, [>], [>], [>]

  Cause and effect (in physics), [>], [>], [>]

  Centrifugal force (in physics), [>]–[>], [>]

  Chaloner, William

  allegations by, about counterfeiting and theft at Royal Mint, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  ambitions of, [>]–[>]

  amount of counterfeit currency produced by, [>], [>]

  attempts to gain access to Royal Mint by, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  background of, [>]–[>]

  becomes wealthy, [>]–[>]

  confederates of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  counterfeiting by, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>] [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>

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