Life After Gravity - Fara, Patricia (Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge)
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The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London's Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade.

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The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London's Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade.
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Patricia Fara lectures in the history of science at Cambridge University, where she is a Fellow of Clare College. Her prize-winning book, Science: A Four Thousand Year History (OUP, 2009), has been translated into nine languages. In addition to many academic publications, her popular works include Newton: The Making of Genius (Columbia University Press, 2002), An Entertainment for Angels (Icon Books, 2002), Sex, Botany and Empire (Columbia University Press, 2003), Pandora's Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment (Pimlico, 2004), and most recently A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War (OUP, 2018). An experienced public lecturer, Patricia Fara appears regularly in TV documentaries and radio programmes such as In Our Time. She also contributes articles and reviews to many journals, including History Today, BBC History, New Scientist, Nature and the TLS.