How to Be Smarter than Isaac Newton
The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean
How Isaac Newton's Blunder Threatened the Nation
Isaac Newton joined the royal mint in 1696. He was walking into a disaster. England's money supply was suffering from several simultaneous crises. One crisis involved so-called coin clipping. By 1696, one in ten coins in circulation in England was fake.
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