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Isaac Newton and the Tower of London

Historic Royal Palaces Podcast

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The Man That Ripped the Book That No One Can Make Head or Tail Of

Newton was in London for a year to be in parliament. He met Huygens, Peeps and Locke who had come back from Holland with the revolutionary invasion. And he was lionized as isagnoten, the man who had transformed the universe. So almost immediately down his return to Cambridge, Newton starts begging his new friends for a ticket out of town.

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