托馬斯·利文森（Thomas Levenson），美國學者、科學作傢、紀錄片製片人，曾獲艾美奬（Emmy Award）和皮博迪奬（Peabody Award）。除本書外，還有如下四部著作齣版：《愛因斯坦在柏林》《針鋒相對：樂器的科學史》《冰河時代：地球的氣候、科學與生命》《尋找火神：愛因斯坦如何顛覆地球，發現相對論，解密宇宙》。現與妻兒同居於波士頓郊外。

In 1695, Isaac Newton—already renowned as the greatest mind of his age—made a surprising career change. He left quiet Cambridge, where he had lived for thirty years and made his earth-shattering discoveries, and moved to London to take up the post of Warden of His Majesty’s Mint.

Newton was preceded to the city by a genius of another Kind, the budding criminal William Chaloner. Thanks to his preternatural skills as a counterfeiter, Chaloner was rapidly rising in London’s cut-throat underworld, at a time when organized law enforcement was all but unknown and money In the modern sense was just coming into being. Then he crossed paths with the formidable new warden. In the courts And streets of London—and amid the tremors of a world being transformed by the ideas Newton himself had set In motion—the chase was on.T his revelatory tale of Isaac Newton’s journey through London’s underworld will appeal to fans of The Professor and the Madman.