Arise, Sir Isaac! Newton’s London Career

For the last thirty years of his life, Isaac Newton lived in London and ran the Royal Mint as well as the Royal Society. Formerly a reclusive scholar at Cambridge, he now moved in aristocratic circles, exerted political influence and became very rich.

Through exploring a painting by William Hogarth that is packed with Newtonian references, Dr Patricia Fara reveals aspects of Newton’s life and fame that usually receive little attention – reintegrating him into a metropolitan world where men and women benefited from global trading based on slavery.