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Isaac Newton and the Tower of London

Historic Royal Palaces Podcast

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How to Write a Pound Dreadful Pamphlet

There is not much information on William Kellener. There's a couple of dossiers in Newton's files. He wrote out accounts of the case. If he made a mistake or he wanted to reconsider something, even if it was just a small thing, he would often rewrite the same often quite long document three, four, five times. You can see him getting pissed off as he writes about this presumptuous, bumpous guy who was insulting him in public and causing him grief. And by the way, forging the king's coins.

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