Posted on 06/17/2007 7:26:12 PM PDT by voletti
JERUSALEM: Renowned British scientist Sir Isaac Newton, the father of modern physics and astronomy, predicted the world would end in 2060. He made the prediction in a 1704 letter that went on show in Jerusalem on Sunday.
A famed rationalist, who secured a royal exemption from the ordination in the Church of England that was normally expected of academics of his day so he would not have to follow its teachings, Newton nonetheless based his prediction on a Biblical text.
Working from verses in the Book of Daniel, the elaborator of the classical laws of gravity, motion and optics argued that the world would end 1,260 years after the foundation of the Holy Roman empire in western Europe in 800 AD.
The letter, on show at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University as part of an exhibition called “Newton’s Secrets”, is part of an array of papers of the British scientist bequeathed to the institution by a wealthy collector of scientific manuscripts.
The university said it was the first time the letter had been put on public show since 1969. Newton’s late 17th century work at Cambridge University was the foundation stone of modern science until the discovery of relativity and quantum mechanics in the last century.
But it has long been known that the ground-breaking physicist from Grantham, England, also took a keen interest in superstitions of his day that have long since fallen foul of modern science. Newton spent four years in the 1670s preparing a work on alchemy, the notion that base metals can be turned into gold.
I’ll probably be corrected here but I don’t think Sir Isaac’s discovery of calculus had anything to do with his gravitational discoveries.
By the way, Sir Isaac had some competition in the invention of calculus. Leibnitz invented it at about the same time. Just a footnote!
I’ll turn 100 that year, so what the heck!
I’m with you.
How old may I ask???
Hillary could be in 2008.
THE END
LOL!
Well we will ALL still be working at 2060 since the illegals will have sucked Social Security dry and the rest of our investments get eaten up by taxes and double digit 3rd world style inflation in the United Federation of the Americas.....that is if we aren’t spending our days at the Hate Crimes Reform Penitentiary for Christian/Zionists sensitivity reprogramming.... a ‘dePRAVED New World’ indeed.
The bad news for me,I’ll be long dead.The good news,some ex-Mexican can have my Social Security check !!!
Errrrrr... I think you got that statement backwards....
Yea,?
I saw corn int the toilet last night.
Your point is?
The Iranian issue will have to be resolved prior to the end of this year because
1) The US has troops in Iraq and if those troops leave, which will probably be in the Spring of 2008, we aren’t going back anytime soon.
2) The Israeli-Iranian War is about erupt any day.
3) Republican or Democrat elected in 2008, 01.20.09, a new directions will take place.
Took me a second to get your drift (what can I say,I’m a little slow),however your probably right !!!
He was also one of the earliest searchers for codes in the Bible.
I’m sort of doubtful that the nuclear situation with Iran is going to be solved any time soon. I anticipate them getting their nuclear weapons by 2012, if not a lot sooner. But, I guess we’ll certainly see fairly soon, whether anything will actually be done. That’s about all of us in the public can really do — simply wait and watch how the situation develops, because we certainly don’t have a single bit of control over what’s going to happen there...
It’s just that (in my head anyway) here’s a guy that invents a branch of mathematics to explain where not that where he thinks where he needs to be, but for the rest of us, how to meet him there. I’m just awe struck by the fact that somebody could invent something like calculus in the first place.
Not from what I've read. I've read that he believed in Christ, but did not have a view of the Trinity that agreed with the Council of Nicea.
Nobody needs to be able to predict the future 303 years in advance. All anybody needs is ten minutes at any of the racetracks....
“I’ll probably be corrected here but I don’t think Sir Isaac’s discovery of calculus had anything to do with his gravitational discoveries.”
It is true that Newton’s inferences in the Principia are framed in traditional geometric arguments, but he was heavily relying on the method of infinitesimals to inform his understanding of the relationships that enabled him to frame those inferences. That’s a favorite approach for mathematicians before his time and up until today: publish only “elegant, spare” proofs, leaving the readers to wonder “How in the world did he ever come up with THAT?” Before the discipline was professionalized, practitioners would often publish only “results” without revealing how they arrived at the results, just as innovators in other fields maintained “trade secrets” until the patent system was introduced and accepted.
Newton’s interests in alchemy and Bible exegesis were an embarrassment to his “Enlightenment” hagiographers, so they did their best to keep these facets of his interests “in the dark” (John 3:19-21).
http://www.alchemylab.com/isaac_newton.htm
http://unfailinglove.org/science_religion/2060.htm
http://unfailinglove.org/science_religion/socinianism.htm
Where do you get this from? I've read Newton on the book of Daniel and on the book of Revelation, he was Christian. He specifically says that if the Pharisees were to be blamed for not recognizing the signs of the times related to Christ, how much more will we be to blame after Christ for not recognizing the signs . . . etc. Think you got this nogahide (sounds like a couch) stuff derivatively, not from actually reading Newton. He was a Christian, Bible believing . . . from his treatise on Revelation "And in a word it was the ignorance of the Jews in these Prophecies which caused them to reject the Messiah and by consequences to be not only captivates by the Romans, but to incur eternal damnation."
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