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Isaac Newton's house, 87 Jermyn Street

Where Newton lived for thirteen years as Master of the Mint and President of the Royal Society, marked by a plaque above a shirt shop.

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Newton left Cambridge in 1696 to run the Royal Mint at the Tower, recoining the nation's silver and hanging its counterfeiters, and lived on Jermyn Street from that year until 1709, first at No. 88 and then here, while he was elected President of the Royal Society and published the Opticks. The house was rebuilt long ago; the plaque on the present building is the only sign that the greatest of English scientists spent his fifties above this pavement, a step from St James's Church.

Where
87 Jermyn Street, SW1Y 6JD
Nearest station
Piccadilly Circus · 3 min walk

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