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Life After Gravity

by Patricia Fara

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Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 · March 22, 2021

Newton: science and worldly riches

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A reassessment of Isaac Newton's final 30 years, painting a more complicated picture of the scientific genius as he heads both the Royal Mint and the Royal Society — a man who revelled in the dirty worlds of money and politics rather than the unworldly scholar of legend.

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