Happy Birthday Sir Isaac Newton

As Google have just reminded me that it is Sir Isaac Newton's Birthday with an apple bouncing Google Doodle, I thought that I would remind readers that he had another career after his time as Mathematician, Physicist and Alchemist. He was Master of the Royal Mint. There is a very good book, part biography, part detective story that I am just finishing reading and which I would recommend to others: Newton and the Counterfeiter by Thomas Levenson. Also it's worth looking at the author's video on the the Amazon site.

For those club members who don't have time to read the book, it was a Radio4 book of the week and I am sure the audio is still out there in the webverse.

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