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Isaac Newton: World would end no earlier than 2060
Papers show Isaac Newton's religious side
June 18, 2007 JERUSALEM (AP) -- Three-century-old manuscripts by Isaac Newton calculating the exact date of the apocalypse, detailing the precise dimensions of the ancient temple in Jerusalem and interpreting passages of the Bible -- exhibited this week for the first time -- lay bare the little-known religious intensity of a man many consider history's greatest scientist. Newton, who died 280 years ago, is known for laying much of the groundwork for modern physics, astronomy, math and optics. But in a new Jerusalem exhibit, he appears as a scholar of deep faith who also found time to write on Jewish law -- even penning a few phrases in careful Hebrew letters -- and combing the Old Testament's Book of Daniel for clues about the world's end. The documents, purchased by a Jewish scholar at a Sotheby's auction in London in 1936, have been kept in safes at Israel's national library in Jerusalem since 1969. Available for decades only to a small number of scholars, they have never before been shown to the public. In one manuscript from the early 1700s, Newton used the cryptic Book of Daniel to calculate the date for the apocalypse, reaching the conclusion that the world would end no earlier than 2060. "It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner," Newton wrote. However, he added, "This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail." In another document, Newton interpreted biblical prophecies to mean that the Jews would return to the Holy Land before the world ends. The end of days will see "the ruin of the wicked nations, the end of weeping and of all troubles, the return of the Jews captivity and their setting up a flourishing and everlasting Kingdom," he posited. The exhibit also includes treatises on daily practice in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. In one document, Newton discussed the exact dimensions of the temple -- its plans mirrored the arrangement of the cosmos, he believed -- and sketched it. Another paper contains words in Hebrew, including a sentence taken from the Jewish prayerbook. Yemima Ben-Menahem, one of the exhibit's curators, said the papers show Newton's conviction that important knowledge was hiding in ancient texts. "He believed there was wisdom in the world that got lost. He thought it was coded, and that by studying things like the dimensions of the temple, he could decode it," she said. The Newton papers, Ben-Menahem said, also complicate the idea that science is diametrically opposed to religion. "These documents show a scientist guided by religious fervor, by a desire to see God's actions in the world," she said. More prosaic documents on display show Newton keeping track of his income and expenses while a scholar at Cambridge and later, as master of the Royal Mint, negotiating with a group of miners from Devon and Cornwall about the price of the tin they supplied to Queen Anne. The archives of Hebrew University in Jerusalem include a 1940 letter from Albert Einstein to Abraham Shalom Yahuda, the collector who purchased the papers a year earlier. Newton's religious writings, Einstein wrote, provide "a variety of sketches and ongoing changes that give us a most interesting look into the mental laboratory of this unique thinker." Find this article at: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science....ap/index.html |
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Isaac Newton: World would end no earlier than 2060
666 wrote:
Papers show Isaac Newton's religious side June 18, 2007 JERUSALEM (AP) -- Three-century-old manuscripts by Isaac Newton calculating the exact date of the apocalypse, detailing the precise dimensions of the ancient temple in Jerusalem and interpreting passages of the Bible -- exhibited this week for the first time -- lay bare the little-known religious intensity of a man many consider history's greatest scientist. Newton, who died 280 years ago, is known for laying much of the groundwork for modern physics, astronomy, math and optics. But in a new Jerusalem exhibit, he appears as a scholar of deep faith who also found time to write on Jewish law -- even penning a few phrases in careful Hebrew letters -- and combing the Old Testament's Book of Daniel for clues about the world's end. The documents, purchased by a Jewish scholar at a Sotheby's auction in London in 1936, have been kept in safes at Israel's national library in Jerusalem since 1969. Available for decades only to a small number of scholars, they have never before been shown to the public. In one manuscript from the early 1700s, Newton used the cryptic Book of Daniel to calculate the date for the apocalypse, reaching the conclusion that the world would end no earlier than 2060. "It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner," Newton wrote. However, he added, "This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail." Just another open-ended projection: the year 2060 or later, no time certain or even a time frame! It's all baloney. RCL |
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Isaac Newton: World would end no earlier than 2060
Rich Corinthian Leather writes:
666 wrote: Papers show Isaac Newton's religious side June 18, 2007 JERUSALEM (AP) -- Three-century-old manuscripts by Isaac Newton calculating the exact date of the apocalypse, detailing the precise dimensions of the ancient temple in Jerusalem and interpreting passages of the Bible -- exhibited this week for the first time -- lay bare the little-known religious intensity of a man many consider history's greatest scientist. Newton, who died 280 years ago, is known for laying much of the groundwork for modern physics, astronomy, math and optics. But in a new Jerusalem exhibit, he appears as a scholar of deep faith who also found time to write on Jewish law -- even penning a few phrases in careful Hebrew letters -- and combing the Old Testament's Book of Daniel for clues about the world's end. The documents, purchased by a Jewish scholar at a Sotheby's auction in London in 1936, have been kept in safes at Israel's national library in Jerusalem since 1969. Available for decades only to a small number of scholars, they have never before been shown to the public. In one manuscript from the early 1700s, Newton used the cryptic Book of Daniel to calculate the date for the apocalypse, reaching the conclusion that the world would end no earlier than 2060. He's right so far... "It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner," Newton wrote. However, he added, "This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail." Just another open-ended projection: the year 2060 or later, no time certain or even a time frame! It's all baloney. And what if he had predicted a precise date in 2060? Would you have said it wasn't baloney? -- Robert Israel Department of Mathematics http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2 |
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Isaac Newton: World would end no earlier than 2060
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Papers show Isaac Newton's religious side June 18, 2007 http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science....ap/index.html Newton wrote many more pages on religion than he did on science. One title: "On the Eleventh Horn of the Beast Seen by the Prophet Daniel". Pretty weird it sounds to us, but in a sense it is inevitable that Newton would surprise us, since he was absolutely the only one of his kind. Newton wrote rather little on science after the age of 35, although he lived to be 85. I like how one person summed up Newton, more or less like so: he was not really the first of the great modern scientists, but rather the last of the medeival wonder-workers. LH |
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Isaac Newton: World would end no earlier than 2060
On Jun 18, 11:16?pm, Robert Israel
wrote: Rich Corinthian Leather writes: 666 wrote: Papers show Isaac Newton's religious side June 18, 2007 JERUSALEM (AP) -- Three-century-old manuscripts by Isaac Newton calculating the exact date of the apocalypse, detailing the precise dimensions of the ancient temple in Jerusalem and interpreting passages of the Bible -- exhibited this week for the first time -- lay bare the little-known religious intensity of a man many consider history's greatest scientist. Newton, who died 280 years ago, is known for laying much of the groundwork for modern physics, astronomy, math and optics. But in a new Jerusalem exhibit, he appears as a scholar of deep faith who also found time to write on Jewish law -- even penning a few phrases in careful Hebrew letters -- and combing the Old Testament's Book of Daniel for clues about the world's end. The documents, purchased by a Jewish scholar at a Sotheby's auction in London in 1936, have been kept in safes at Israel's national library in Jerusalem since 1969. Available for decades only to a small number of scholars, they have never before been shown to the public. In one manuscript from the early 1700s, Newton used the cryptic Book of Daniel to calculate the date for the apocalypse, reaching the conclusion that the world would end no earlier than 2060. He's right so far... How do you know? What if the End Times have already started? They're going to last a thousand years so there's still plenty of time for the rivers to turn to blood. What if the Rapture has already taken place and God simply removed all memory of it from your mind? Of course, if you're still here, it means you aren't one of the Elect. "It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner," Newton wrote. However, he added, "This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail." Just another open-ended projection: the year 2060 or later, no time certain or even a time frame! It's all baloney. And what if he had predicted a precise date in 2060? Would you have said it wasn't baloney? Sure. Newton was a heretic, he used the book of Daniel instead of Revelations (which everyone knows superceeded all prior prophesies). So everything Newton had to say was baloney. -- Robert Israel Department of Mathematics http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2 |
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Isaac Newton: World would end no earlier than 2060
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:49:34 -0700, 666 wrote:
snip Therion and I are entitled to refer to ourselves as "666" on alt.atheism. You ain't. -- "O Sybilli, si ergo Fortibus es in ero O Nobili! Themis trux Sivat sinem? Causen Dux" |
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Isaac Newton: World would end no earlier than 2060
On Jun 18, 11:03 pm, Rich Corinthian Leather
wrote: Just another open-ended projection: the year 2060 or later, no time certain or even a time frame! That's not open-ended. What is states is precise: namely that the world will NOT end before 2060. It's all baloney. Both it and you are wrong. It's not wrong because it's "baloney", but because we're already close to having the **** hit the fan, particularly with everybody and their sibling getting nukes; extremists of all ideologies and religions coming to full bloom; men the world over losing their sense of direction (e.g. women are now the majority in college-level education worldwide filling the vacuum left behind by males who have dropped out, in some places (like the Middle East) thoroughly dominating the ranks of the sciences and majority of fields; they are becoming and have become the majority of the ranks of the managers and professions throughout the developed world (including the US) with males nowhere to be found (e.g. take a look at the early morning newscasts in the US); suicides (particularly amongst males) have risen prominently worldwide since the early to mid 20th century to the point that the WHO has now sounded the alarm bells; testosterone poisoning has apparently pervaded the political landscape amidst the rise of the collective insanity and atativism of this half of the human race) If the **** hits the fan, there's no way this will linger all the way out to 2060. Everything is already coming to a head now. Half the human race is already suffering all the symptoms, collectively, of cabin fever or restlessness of the same sort that afflicts someone who's been cooped up for too long, without an exit -- the Rapa Nui Syndrome or Easter Island Syndome is already upon us. Eventually, the other half will succumb, as well. Women are not taking over, but merely filling in the vacuum left behind by the faltering half of the human race. But they, too, will eventually falter. The threshold that the world succeeds (or fails) to get through is already upon us. There's no way the world will end without it happening no later than 2020. |
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Isaac Newton: World would end no earlier than 2060
On Jun 18, 9:49 pm, 666 wrote:
Papers show Isaac Newton's religious side June 18, 2007 JERUSALEM (AP) -- Three-century-old manuscripts by Isaac Newton calculating the exact date of the apocalypse, detailing the precise dimensions of the ancient temple in Jerusalem and interpreting passages of the Bible -- exhibited this week for the first time -- lay bare the little-known religious intensity of a man many consider history's greatest scientist. Newton, who died 280 years ago, is known for laying much of the groundwork for modern physics, astronomy, math and optics. But in a new Jerusalem exhibit, he appears as a scholar of deep faith who also found time to write on Jewish law -- even penning a few phrases in careful Hebrew letters -- and combing the Old Testament's Book of Daniel for clues about the world's end. The documents, purchased by a Jewish scholar at a Sotheby's auction in London in 1936, have been kept in safes at Israel's national library in Jerusalem since 1969. Available for decades only to a small number of scholars, they have never before been shown to the public. In one manuscript from the early 1700s, Newton used the cryptic Book of Daniel to calculate the date for the apocalypse, reaching the conclusion that the world would end no earlier than 2060. "It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner," Newton wrote. However, he added, "This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail." In another document, Newton interpreted biblical prophecies to mean that the Jews would return to the Holy Land before the world ends. The end of days will see "the ruin of the wicked nations, the end of weeping and of all troubles, the return of the Jews captivity and their setting up a flourishing and everlasting Kingdom," he posited. The exhibit also includes treatises on daily practice in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. In one document, Newton discussed the exact dimensions of the temple -- its plans mirrored the arrangement of the cosmos, he believed -- and sketched it. Another paper contains words in Hebrew, including a sentence taken from the Jewish prayerbook. Yemima Ben-Menahem, one of the exhibit's curators, said the papers show Newton's conviction that important knowledge was hiding in ancient texts. "He believed there was wisdom in the world that got lost. He thought it was coded, and that by studying things like the dimensions of the temple, he could decode it," she said. The Newton papers, Ben-Menahem said, also complicate the idea that science is diametrically opposed to religion. "These documents show a scientist guided by religious fervor, by a desire to see God's actions in the world," she said. More prosaic documents on display show Newton keeping track of his income and expenses while a scholar at Cambridge and later, as master of the Royal Mint, negotiating with a group of miners from Devon and Cornwall about the price of the tin they supplied to Queen Anne. The archives of Hebrew University in Jerusalem include a 1940 letter from Albert Einstein to Abraham Shalom Yahuda, the collector who purchased the papers a year earlier. Newton's religious writings, Einstein wrote, provide "a variety of sketches and ongoing changes that give us a most interesting look into the mental laboratory of this unique thinker." Find this article at:http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science....ap/index.html Well, the only way we'll know for sure whether or not Newton was right is when 2060 rolls around... |
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Isaac Newton: World would end no earlier than 2060
On Jun 19, 3:15 pm, wrote:
On Jun 18, 11:03 pm, Rich Corinthian Leather wrote: Just another open-ended projection: the year 2060 or later, no time certain or even a time frame! That's not open-ended. What is states is precise: namely that the world will NOT end before 2060. It's all baloney. Both it and you are wrong. It's not wrong because it's "baloney", but because we're already close to having the **** hit the fan, particularly with everybody and their sibling getting nukes; extremists of all ideologies and religions coming to full bloom; men the world over losing their sense of direction (e.g. women are now the majority in college-level education worldwide filling the vacuum left behind by males who have dropped out, in some places (like the Middle East) thoroughly dominating the ranks of the sciences and majority of fields; they are becoming and have become the majority of the ranks of the managers and professions throughout the developed world (including the US) with males nowhere to be found (e.g. take a look at the early morning newscasts in the US); suicides (particularly amongst males) have risen prominently worldwide since the early to mid 20th century to the point that the WHO has now sounded the alarm bells; testosterone poisoning has apparently pervaded the political landscape amidst the rise of the collective insanity and atativism of this half of the human race) If the **** hits the fan, there's no way this will linger all the way out to 2060. Everything is already coming to a head now. Half the human race is already suffering all the symptoms, collectively, of cabin fever or restlessness of the same sort that afflicts someone who's been cooped up for too long, without an exit -- the Rapa Nui Syndrome or Easter Island Syndome is already upon us. Eventually, the other half will succumb, as well. Women are not taking over, but merely filling in the vacuum left behind by the faltering half of the human race. But they, too, will eventually falter. The threshold that the world succeeds (or fails) to get through is already upon us. There's no way the world will end without it happening no later than 2020. Well, the world is about to hit rock bottom soon, yes, but I believe that things will change then -- and we will begin to have peace. But what sort of crap we must go through to get there I have no idea. However, I don't think the world will end as in "bang, it's over", but rather the present world that we know of will end, and something new will replace it. |
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Isaac Newton: World would end no earlier than 2060
On Jun 18, 11:09 pm, "Larry Hammick" wrote:
"666" Papers show Isaac Newton's religious side June 18, 2007 http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science....ap/index.html Newton wrote many more pages on religion than he did on science. One title: "On the Eleventh Horn of the Beast Seen by the Prophet Daniel". Pretty weird it sounds to us, but in a sense it is inevitable that Newton would surprise us, since he was absolutely the only one of his kind. Newton wrote rather little on science after the age of 35, although he lived to be 85. I like how one person summed up Newton, more or less like so: he was not really the first of the great modern scientists, but rather the last of the medeival wonder-workers. LH You seem to think that scientists cannot be involved with religion, that they must be cold, hard atheists with no religion at all. Newton's theories *are* science, and they are the basis for all the rest of physics, which has been built on them. His religious belief does not change their scientific validity and usefulness. |
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