Newton set 2060 for end of world

The Daily Telegraph ^ | February 22, 2003 | Jonathan Petre

[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.

[Quix]

Doesn't the record indicate he was mystical BEFORE his "dotage"--by at least several decades?

[Quix]

PING

[monkeyshine]

If I make it to then, I'll be 90. I suppose there is some consolation in knowing that everyone else would be going with me.

[Mr. Mojo]

Sweeping economic plans will be pushed by the Antichrist, primarily worth-distribution to the Third World. So, the wealthier nations such as the United States will be surprised when the bulk of its money will be taken and redistributed to the poorest nations.

Well, at least we know that the Antichrist won't be either a Libertarian or a conservative Republican. He might very well be a Rino, however.

[monkeyshine]

ROFL

[Mr. Mojo]

I'll be 96. ...But with my family genes, there better be some major breakthroughs in medicine if I'm going to make it 'til then.

[Quix]

PING

HOWDY, There are several long book chapter posts that might be of interest to you. . . . by a Roman Catholic investigative reporter on several key end time issues.

[Quix]

I think Bush Sr was one to watch his associations--as well as what's their faces--Viagra Senator & Red Cross wife--I think the latter are globalists and perhaps the former.

But there are sooooooo many Democrups in line ahead of them. . . we probably don't need to watch the RHINO's tooooo carefully.

[537 Votes]

The Earth's magnetic poles have been reversing themselves for billions of years previous to now.

Some tout that magnetic pole reversal will bring about the end of the world.

How come the world's still here then? ;-)

That the Earth's magnetic field is diminishing and will be gone by 2500 AD is a scientific fact. That life on Earth cannot survive without the magnetic-field generated radiation belt surrounding our planet -- that's also fact.

That it's difficult to explain how life could have survived on Earth for billions of years while the magnetic pole has been oscillating through zero point thousands of times -- well, evolutionists will call you a creationist for asking such a question, so don't ask.

[RoughDobermann]

"Nature will find a way." Always has, always will...

[RightWhale]

His Treatise on Opticks was more mystical than scientific. When did he write that? Age 29 or later, probably. That's where most scientists finally admit they don't know anything. They know stuff beyond doubt until they begin to study stuff. When they have studied stuff they know, --long enough or deeply enough,-- they realize they not only don't know stuff, but they can't know stuff. Happens by age 29. It's all mysticism from then on.

[PatrickHenry]

Sir Isaac Newton is one of the most brilliant men of all time. It figures he would approach the Bible with an abacus in hand.

Actually, he used a slide rule, which had been invented in the 1620s. I guess he might have used an abacus for addition.

[Quix]

EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT POINT.

One I would enjoy a fair number here KNOWING MORE EXPERIENTIALLY . . . or at least more consciously . . . or perhapts more at all.

[strela]

Please take me off of your ping list. If I had wanted to read War and Peace, I would have gone to my library at home and pulled it off the shelf.

[Doctor Stochastic]

I'll have to postpone the End of The World, as it turns out. I'm having my feet scraped that afternoon.

[Quix]

UNDERSTAND.

JUST BEGAN A NEW "EXCLUDE" FROM ALL PINGS list.

You are the first entry.

Sorry to have annoyed you.

Guess my Reference Librarian sorts of days are coming through. I assume those interested will save and read at their comfort or ignore. Didn't mean to be a problem at all.

Blessings,