Speaker 1: In the late sixteen hundreds, England found itself in crisis.
Speaker 1: The fledgling financial system was on the verge of collapse.
Speaker 1: Counterfeiters were running rampant. Riot was in the air, and
Speaker 1: the only person standing between England and oblivion was Isaac Newton.
Speaker 1: That's correct. Yeah, one of the greatest scientific minds they
Speaker 1: ever really had this link with the Row min We
Speaker 1: all know Isaac Newton as the guy with the apple
Speaker 1: and gravity and the laws of motion. But Newton's second
Speaker 1: act after he sorted gravity and all was as the
Speaker 1: warden of the Royal Mint. This job basically made him
Speaker 1: a cop on the Crown's payroll, and that Newton sent
Speaker 1: dozens of people to their deaths, ran undercover operations, paid
Speaker 1: off informants in shady pubs, may have once maybe had
Speaker 1: someone sort of tortured. This. Isaac Newton came to be
Speaker 1: hated and feared by the London underworld. So this is
Speaker 1: a man that, despite loathing this actual work, is doing
Speaker 1: an awful lot of it in a way that you
Speaker 1: might expect from a police inspector and a judge and
Speaker 1: prosecution today in many ways, join me. Linda Rodriguez mcgrabbie
Speaker 1: from Newton's Law, a new I Heart original podcast. We'll
Speaker 1: follow Isaac Newton on his unexpected journey from dusty Cambridge
Speaker 1: academic to ruthless London detective. We'll get into some big
Speaker 1: ideas that had their roots in this moment more than
Speaker 1: three years ago, ideas that have shaped the world around us.
Speaker 1: And we'll hear about how the world's smartest man's new
Speaker 1: job put him on a collision course with the most
Speaker 1: prolific skilled counterfeitter the city had ever seen. You listen
Speaker 1: to Newton's Law starting on August eighteen on the I
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