Isaac and Amanda: A Play in Ten Scenes

The play “Isaac and Amanda” is among other things a love story about Isaac Newton and a woman named Amanda. It also contains material about the conflicts that Newton had with the scientist Robert Hooke and the mathematician Leibniz. The latter conflict deals with the issue of who should receive credit for the discovery of Calculus. Furthermore, it deals with that period of Newton’s life when he was an official in the Mint (the equivalent in the United States of the Treasury Department) tryi...