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"Terry McCombs" |
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16 Jan 2005 04:10:57 PM |
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Et tu Isaac? (How annoying) |
Newton Predicted End of the World in 2060 (Science)
The world knows Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) as the father of modern
physics. Of his many scientific achievements, he is most remembered for
inventing the Laws of Motion and the Law of Universal Gravitation,
creating the first reflecting telescope and formulating the mathematical
principles of calculus.
What most of the the world does not remember him for is the considerable
time and effort he also spent on alchemy, astrology and theology. In
fact, he wrote at great length on prophecies and predictions.
Now, as The Telegraph reports, obscure handwritten manuscripts from
Newton's hand have recently been discovered and analyzed by Canadian
academic Stephen Snobelen of the Newton Project 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 predicted that the Second Coming of Christ would follow plagues
and war and would precede a 1000-year reign by the saints on earth--of
which he would be one. The most definitive date he set for the
apocalypse, scribbled on a scrap of paper, was 2060.
The manuscripts had lain in a trunk in the house of the Earl of
Portsmouth for 250 years before being sold by Sotheby's Auction House in
the late 1930s's to an eccentric collector, Abraham Yahuda.
Believing that a history of Old Testament chronology composed by someone
like Newton might still have value, and intrigued by the low status
accorded to Christ in Newton's version of Christianity, Yahuda strove
for a unified collection of Newton's theological material.
After his death, the papers were eventually given to the Jewish National
and University Library, where they were catalogued and made accessible
to scholars at the end of the 1960's.
Newton's end-of-the-world fascination was explored in the documentary
Newton: The Dark Heretic made by the BBC.
The documentary argues that the image of Newton as the great rational
thinker was created after his death--Newton was actually a puritanical
zealot, a secret heretic who raged against the Anglican Church,
delighted in the suffering of Catholics and felt God had given him
special powers.
"What has been coming out over the past 10 years is what an apocalyptic
thinker Newton was," says the documentary's producer, Malcolm Neaum.
"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."
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| User: "Denis Loubet" |
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| Title: Re: Et tu Isaac? (How annoying) |
16 Jan 2005 06:56:57 PM |
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"Terry McCombs" <magentashadow@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:23635-41EA9211-35@storefull-3138.bay.webtv.net...
Newton Predicted End of the World in 2060 (Science)
The world knows Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Sir Isaac Newton isn't even alive in 2060, so how can he predict the End of
the World? ;-)
--
Denis Loubet
dloubet@io.com
http://www.io.com/~dloubet
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| User: "Terry McCombs" |
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| Title: Re: Et tu Isaac? (How annoying) |
16 Jan 2005 11:30:43 PM |
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"Sir Isaac Newton isn't even alive in 2060, so how can he predict the
End of the World?"
Well if your around when something happens its news and if it is
something that has already happened its history. To "predict" something
pretty much demands you not be around.
Another weird thing that Newton did, that is still around today, is
saying the spectrum is made up of 7 colors.
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo & violet.
Actually there are only 6, Newton talked himself and others into seeing
indigo in the rainbow because be was sure the mystic number 7, as shown
in the 7 deadly sins, 7 virtues, 7 planets (as they thought at the time)
etc, HAD to also be found in something as important as the spectrum, so
we got indigo.
it's a nice color mind you, it's just not really in the spectrum.
Terry
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| User: "nJb" |
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| Title: Re: Et tu Isaac? (How annoying) |
18 Jan 2005 08:45:31 AM |
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Terry McCombs wrote:
"Sir Isaac Newton isn't even alive in 2060, so how can he predict the
End of the World?"
Well if your around when something happens its news and if it is
something that has already happened its history. To "predict" something
pretty much demands you not be around.
Another weird thing that Newton did, that is still around today, is
saying the spectrum is made up of 7 colors.
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo & violet.
Actually there are only 6, Newton talked himself and others into seeing
indigo in the rainbow because be was sure the mystic number 7, as shown
in the 7 deadly sins, 7 virtues, 7 planets (as they thought at the time)
etc, HAD to also be found in something as important as the spectrum, so
we got indigo.
it's a nice color mind you, it's just not really in the spectrum.
Terry
Yeah right. Then who the hell is Roy G Bv?
Jack
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| User: "jwk" |
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| Title: Re: Et tu Isaac? (How annoying) |
17 Jan 2005 01:01:58 AM |
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Terry McCombs wrote:
"Sir Isaac Newton isn't even alive in 2060, so how can he predict the
End of the World?"
Well if your around when something happens its news and if it is
something that has already happened its history. To "predict"
something
pretty much demands you not be around.
Another weird thing that Newton did, that is still around today, is
saying the spectrum is made up of 7 colors.
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo & violet.
Actually there are only 6, Newton talked himself and others into
seeing
indigo in the rainbow because be was sure the mystic number 7, as
shown
in the 7 deadly sins, 7 virtues, 7 planets (as they thought at the
time)
etc, HAD to also be found in something as important as the spectrum,
so
we got indigo.
it's a nice color mind you, it's just not really in the spectrum.
Terry
I thought it was just so I could use the mnemonic Roy G Biv.
jwk
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| User: "nJb" |
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18 Jan 2005 08:46:37 AM |
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jwk wrote:
Terry McCombs wrote:
"Sir Isaac Newton isn't even alive in 2060, so how can he predict the
End of the World?"
Well if your around when something happens its news and if it is
something that has already happened its history. To "predict"
something
pretty much demands you not be around.
Another weird thing that Newton did, that is still around today, is
saying the spectrum is made up of 7 colors.
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo & violet.
Actually there are only 6, Newton talked himself and others into
seeing
indigo in the rainbow because be was sure the mystic number 7, as
shown
in the 7 deadly sins, 7 virtues, 7 planets (as they thought at the
time)
etc, HAD to also be found in something as important as the spectrum,
so
we got indigo.
it's a nice color mind you, it's just not really in the spectrum.
Terry
I thought it was just so I could use the mnemonic Roy G Biv.
jwk
Eventually I'll learn to read the whole thread before replying.
Jack
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| User: "MarkA" |
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| Title: Re: Et tu Isaac? (How annoying) |
16 Jan 2005 05:21:04 PM |
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 10:10:57 -0600, Terry McCombs wrote:
Newton Predicted End of the World in 2060 (Science)
Newton was borderline psychotic: one of those people so incredibly
brilliant he could barely function in the real world. And a very devout
theist.
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MarkA
(still caught in the maze of twisty little passages, all different)
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