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Newton set 2060 for end of world
The Daily Telegraph ^ | February 22, 2003 | Jonathan Petre

Posted on 02/21/2003 5:35:31 PM PST by MadIvan

Sir Isaac Newton, Britain's greatest scientist, predicted the date of the end of the world - and it is only 57 years away.

His theories about Armageddon have been unearthed by academics from little-known handwritten manuscripts in a library in Jerusalem.

The thousands of pages show Newton's attempts to decode the Bible, which he believed contained God's secret laws for the universe.

Newton, who was also a theologian and alchemist, predicted that the Second Coming of Christ would follow plagues and war and would precede a 1,000-year reign by the saints on earth - of which he would be one.

The most definitive date he set for the apocalypse, which he scribbled on a scrap of paper, was 2060.

Newton's fascination with the end of the world, which has been researched by a Canadian academic, Stephen Snobelen, is to be explored in a documentary, Newton: The Dark Heretic, on BBC2 next Saturday.

"What has been coming out over the past 10 years is what an apocalyptic thinker Newton was," Malcolm Neaum, the producer, said.

"He spent something like 50 years and wrote 4,500 pages trying to predict when the end of the world was coming. But until now it was not known that he ever wrote down a final figure. He was very reluctant to do so."

Thousands of Newton's papers, which had lain in a trunk in the house of the Earl of Portsmouth for 250 years, were sold by Sotheby's in the late 1930s.

John Maynard Keynes, the economist, bought many of the texts on alchemy and theology. But much of the material went to an eccentric collector, Abraham Yahuda, and was stored in the Hebrew National Library. It was among these documents that the date was found.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: date; newton; worldend
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Just in case you were making any plans.

Regards, Ivan

1 posted on 02/21/2003 5:35:31 PM PST by MadIvan
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To: UofORepublican; kayak; LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR; keats5; Don'tMessWithTexas; Dutchy; ...
Bump!
2 posted on 02/21/2003 5:36:09 PM PST by MadIvan
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To: MadIvan
I wonder if he read the part in The Bible Where Jesus said no one knows the day nor the hour.
3 posted on 02/21/2003 5:40:58 PM PST by RLJVet
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To: MadIvan
Newton became quite mystical in his dotage. Quite a change for the premier mathematician of his day, but maybe not unusual for old scientists.
4 posted on 02/21/2003 5:43:08 PM PST by RightWhale
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To: RLJVet
Here is an impressive site- The Interview with God
http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/popup2.html
5 posted on 02/21/2003 5:48:20 PM PST by Mark
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To: MadIvan

That's right! We will hold off the inspectors for another 57 years, and then KABOOM!

6 posted on 02/21/2003 6:04:16 PM PST by CanisMajor2002 (Annoy a liberal...judge them by the content of their character)
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To: MadIvan
This is going to really suck for my kids.
7 posted on 02/21/2003 6:05:50 PM PST by socal_parrot (I'm growing older, but not up.)
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To: MadIvan
papers, which had lain in a trunk in the house of the Earl of Portsmouth for 250 years

Don't these people ever clean out their attics? How did that Earl know there wasn't 250-year-old pizza sitting up there?

8 posted on 02/21/2003 6:07:11 PM PST by Nick Danger (Freeps Ahoy! Caribbean cruise May 31... from $610 http://www.freeper.org)
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To: MadIvan
Say it's not so...I'll only be 127 in 2060. Can you give a little more time to get things in order ?
9 posted on 02/21/2003 6:10:14 PM PST by tubebender (?)
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To: RLJVet
I wonder if he read the part in The Bible Where Jesus said no one knows the day nor the hour.

Since he was reuctant to pin it down precisely, I would think he read the part that says we can know the season.

10 posted on 02/21/2003 6:11:51 PM PST by templar
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To: MadIvan
2060? I guess I can stop the planning for my 115th birthday party. Pitty, that.
11 posted on 02/21/2003 6:12:17 PM PST by DugwayDuke
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To: MadIvan
Not a bad guess by Isaac; he was only 42 years off.
12 posted on 02/21/2003 6:13:45 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo
Ooops, I meant 48 years.
13 posted on 02/21/2003 6:17:41 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: socal_parrot
This is going to really suck for my kids.

Newton correctly predicted that the Second Coming of Christ would follow plagues and war and would precede a 1,000-year reign by the saints on earth - of which he would be one.

You and your children can be among that number too.

14 posted on 02/21/2003 6:20:45 PM PST by John Twenty 28
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To: socal_parrot
Not if they're saved!
15 posted on 02/21/2003 6:22:48 PM PST by Cedric
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To: MadIvan
Damn.....I'll only be 106.
16 posted on 02/21/2003 6:23:00 PM PST by Lando Lincoln (God Bless the arsenal of liberty.)
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To: DugwayDuke
2060? I guess I can stop the planning for my 115th birthday party. Pitty, that.

Darn and I just got the invitation yesterday!

18 posted on 02/21/2003 6:28:43 PM PST by ET(end tyranny)
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To: MadIvan; tinfoilhat
My (Palm tm Powered) Handspring PDA won't go beyond 2031.

Coincidence? I think not. The Bildeburgers, Trilateral Commision, Comintern, etc, etc, etc, are involved!

Excuse me. I must go apply an extra layer of tinfoil to my cranium. By the way, that is real TIN foil. You sheep who put aluminium foil on your heads are IMPROVING the mind-control signals from the Illuminati.

19 posted on 02/21/2003 6:30:45 PM PST by LibKill (Give me back my DDT!)
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To: ET(end tyranny)
You can still send the present. I'm assuming you did get me that new deer rifle in .308? I'll leave it to you in my will.
20 posted on 02/21/2003 6:30:46 PM PST by DugwayDuke
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