The First Scientific Detective, I'm Sorry, Sherlock

The story of Newton as the first scientific detective, I'm sorry, Sherlock. That's what I want you to sort of hold in the back of your mind. This is a period in which very radically different ideas were promulgating not just in the conversations of the learned, but in the back streets and bad pubs of London and everywhere else. It was, as you'll see, even in this story of crime and punishment, something that extended to ordinary people.