Article ID: CBB998211009

The science of money: Isaac Newton's mastering of the Mint (2022)

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This article uses the records at the Royal Mint to explore how Isaac Newton worked with metal beyond his alchemical and natural philosophical pursuits. It demonstrates how institutional paperwork can be used to think in new ways about the management of working resources as well as the relationship of material and mental practices across the linked urban worlds of state, science and finance. It reveals how Newton negotiated artisanal and administrative skills through a learned ‘practical objectivity’, unable to rely wholly upon his scientific reputation or mathematical ability when working with men and metals within a government department. Finally, it illuminates how Newton's activities at the Mint intersected and influenced a growing interest in the pursuit of scholarly antiquarianism as well as commercial geology, mining, metallurgy and metrology in the early eighteenth century.

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Authors & Contributors
Biggs, Norman L.
Carey, Daniel
Deleplace, Ghislain
Fara, Patricia
Finlay, Christopher J.
Gillard, Lucien
Journals
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Publishers
Harvard University Press
Irish Academic Press
Mariner Books
Oxford University Press
Springer International
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Money
Metals and metallic compounds
Economics
Banks and banking
Science and economics
Patients
People
Newton, Isaac
Bernoulli, Johann
Desaguliers, John Theophilus
Hooke, Robert
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Woodward, John
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
19th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
London (England)
Great Britain
Paris (France)
Europe
France
United States
Institutions
Société Royale de Médecine
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