Money for Nothing: The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich

by Thomas Levenson

Here, fortunate ill-fortune intervened. No natural sailor, he broke his leg aboard and was turned ashore at the Norman port city of Caen. The Jesuits of the University of Caen took him in and exposed him to some of the new, humanistic learning then spreading across Europe.