Fara, Patricia, Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career.

Though it takes only a few brief pages, one of the most valuable of these methodological asides comes when Fara traces how Conduitt used his control over Newton's papers to carefully and deliberately shape Newton's posthumous public image. Patricia Fara is a historian of science at the University of Cambridge whose wide-ranging interests include eighteenth-century natural philosophy, the cultural history of science, and women in science. [Extracted from the article]