Hey Marotta-Happy Newton's B'day

[Steve]

Seems as though someone else thinks as you!

http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/the-ten-days-of-newton/

Steve

[Mike Marotta]

Thanks for the link! (She's a hottie -- and she specializes in the
biology of sex. What science in Newton's day truly lacked was not
computers.)

Here is my reply:
If you search the Usenet Newsgroups, you will see that numismatists
and others have been celebrating "Newtonmas" for many years. I first
delivered a radio address via my NPR affliate, WKAR-AM in East Lansing
back in the mid-1980s.

Though deleted from the Wikipeda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Newtonmas

you can still read about Newtonmas here
http://newtonmas.quickseek.com/

and here
http://www.coin-newbies.com/articles/newton.html

The American Numismatic Association granted me a Heath Literary Award
for my biography of Newton's tenure as Warden and Master of the Mint.
From that research, I built up the paragraph in Wikipedia on "Newton
versus the Counterfeiters." The standard references for that were
Craig, Sir John. "Isaac Newton and the Counterfeiters." Notes and
Records of the Royal Society (18), London: 1963. and Craig, Sir
John. Newton at the Mint. Cambridge: University Press, 1946.

The motivator for me was the short shrift given to Newton's work at
the Mint by most of his biographers. Berlinski says frankly that
Newton's life at that point was "not interesting." It was,
nonetheless, 30 years of his life, certainly of some interest to
Newton himself.

Merry Newtonmas!
Michael