Royal Mint, London

Abridged from the Ontario Report, pp. 317-319, in the compilation of which the data were obtained from Rigg s Annual Reports of the Royal Mint, London, 1911,1913, and 1914. 

After returning to Cambridge in 1667, Newton was elected Fellow of Trinity College. Two years later he succeeded Barrow as Lucasian Professor. In 1696 Newton moved to London. He served first as Warden and from 1699 to his death in 1727 as Master of the Royal Mint. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London m 1671, and the President of this society in 1703, a position he retained for the rest of his life. He also semed two undistinguished terms as a Member of Parliament for the University of Cambridge (1689-1690 and 1701—1702). He was knighted in Cambridge in 1705. 

Isaac Newton (1643-1727), English physicist, astronomer and mathematician, and professor at Cambridge University. In 1672, he became a member of the Royal Society of London, and in 1699, he became the director of the Royal Mint, who was said to be merciless to the forgers. In 1705, Newton became a Lord. In the opus magnum mentioned above, he developed the notions of space, time, mass, and force, gave three principles of dynamics and the law of gravity and showed that the latter pertains to problems that differ enormously in their scale (e.g., the famous apple and the planets). Newton is also a founder of differential and integral calculus (Independently from G.W. Leibnitz). 

VI. W. T. Brande and A. S. Taylor, Chemistry, 1863. Brande also wrote A Manual of Pharmacy, 1825 . 4 Dictionary of Materia Medica, 1839 Analysis of the Well Water at the Royal Mint, with some Remarks on the Waters of the London Wells, 1851 (Chem. Soc. Libr.) and A Sketch of the History of Alchemy , J, Sci, Arts, 1820, ix, 225-39. 

Boyle was also a close colleague of another natural philosopher, who would come to have even greater distinction than he, Isaac Newton (1642—1727). Newton s crowning achievement was the elucidation of the law of gravitation and its application to celestial and terrestrial phenomena. He was a professor of mathematics at Cambridge University. He was also for many years president of the Royal Society of London and, more briefly, a member of Parliament and Master of the Mint. He was, in short, the very model of a modern major scientist and statesman of science. Until recently, historians have accepted that strict model and been reluctant to recognize that he was also a serious student and practitioner of alchemy. It is arguable that alchemy was as important to him as mathematical physics and astronomy. Newton and the age in which he lived were clearly more complex than the old historical model perceived. 

Roberts-Axtsten, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 187 pi 481 Annual Mint Report, 1900, p. 70. 

William Thomas Brande (London, n January 1788-Tunbridge Wells, ii February 1866), F.R.S. 1809, in 1812 superintendent of chemical operations in Apothecaries Hall, succeeded Davy as professor of chemistry in the Royal Institution (1813-54), from 1827 with Faraday as second professor he was then Master of the Mint. His father was apothecary to George III and had shops in Hanover and London (Accum was his assistant in 1793). Brande wrote several books ... 

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