Newton and the counterfeiter : the unknown detective career of the world's greatest scientist / Thomas Levenson.

Boston [Mass.] : Mariner Books : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

xii, 318 pages ; 21 cm

1st Mariner Books ed.

"Novelistic history writing"--P. [4] of cover.

Originally published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2009.

Preface: "Let Newton be" -- Learning to think -- A rogue's progress -- Passions -- The new warden -- Skirmishes -- Newton and the counterfeiter -- Epilogue: "He could not calculate the madness of the people."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [292]-301) and index.