The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 1, January 2, 2005, Article 9

MERRY NEWTONMAS

  Michael Marotta writes: "Thanks to John and Nancy Wilson's 
  article (E-Sylum, V7 N50, Dec. 12,'04), forwarding a 
  message from the Prusmack family, I checked "Dark Matter" 
  by Philip Kerr from my local library. 

  Sir Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day, 1642. (Dec. 25, 
  1642 Old Style is now Jan. 4, 1643 New Style.) In years 
  past, though not this one, I have mailed out "Newtonmas" 
  cards. Next time around, they will have to include coin 
  images.  

  E-Sylum readers interested in the career of perhaps the 
  greatest mind in western civilization might remember 
  E-Sylum, Volume 6, Number 8, February 23, 2003 which 
  cited The Newton Project,an online compilation of Isaac 
  Newton's manuscripts. (Homepage Homepage)

  I have a brief article about Newton online at Coin Newbies
  Full Story) 
  and I wrote a longer work about his tenure as Warden and 
  Master of the Royal Mint for The Numismatist, Vol. 114, 
  no. 11, November 2001, which unfortunately is not online.

  It is true that the standard authoritative biographies 
  of Sir Isaac Newton say little about the last 30 years
  of his life. David Berlinski ("Newton's gift: how Sir 
  Isaac Newton unlocked the system of the world") says 
  flat out that Newton's time in London is uninteresting. 
  The best book that I have found about the devilish 
  details that fascinate E-Sylum readers is "Newton at 
  the Mint" by John Craig (Cambridge, 1946)."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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