Introducing Newton's Law

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In the late sixteen hundreds, England found itself in crisis.
The fledgling financial system was on the verge of collapse.
Counterfeiters were running rampant. Riot was in the air, and
the only person standing between England and oblivion was Isaac Newton.
That's correct. Yeah, one of the greatest scientific minds they

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ever really had this link with the Row min We
all know Isaac Newton as the guy with the apple
and gravity and the laws of motion. But Newton's second
act after he sorted gravity and all was as the
warden of the Royal Mint. This job basically made him
a cop on the Crown's payroll, and that Newton sent

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dozens of people to their deaths, ran undercover operations, paid
off informants in shady pubs, may have once maybe had
someone sort of tortured. This. Isaac Newton came to be
hated and feared by the London underworld. So this is
a man that, despite loathing this actual work, is doing

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an awful lot of it in a way that you
might expect from a police inspector and a judge and
prosecution today in many ways, join me. Linda Rodriguez mcgrabbie
from Newton's Law, a new I Heart original podcast. We'll
follow Isaac Newton on his unexpected journey from dusty Cambridge

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academic to ruthless London detective. We'll get into some big
ideas that had their roots in this moment more than
three years ago, ideas that have shaped the world around us.
And we'll hear about how the world's smartest man's new
job put him on a collision course with the most

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prolific skilled counterfeitter the city had ever seen. You listen
to Newton's Law starting on August eighteen on the I
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favorite shows.