Sir Isaac Newton didn’t just spend his time figuring out how gravity and laying the scientific foundations for how we conceive of the physical world to this day. He was also a radical Anglican theologian who believed that to worship Christ was to worship a false idol. And he also applied mathematical logic to the Bible in order to construct elaborate prophesies aboutSir-Isaac-Newton-predicted-2060-to-be-end-of-the-world the end of the world.
His calculations led him to believe that the world would end 1,260 years after the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire. The apocalypse couldn’t occur before 2060, he believed, though he remained hesitant to confirm any single expiration date.
Newton also named other dates, and kept pushing them back as he grew older. But he was unusually firm in naming 2060 more than others, which included 2034 and much later. Given the nice roundness of the number, and the fact that it appears in more than one letter, the media have seized on it as the founder of classical mechanic’s apocalyptic projection.
His calculations led him to believe that the world would end 1,260 years after the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire. The apocalypse couldn’t occur before 2060, he believed, though he remained hesitant to confirm any single expiration date.
Newton also named other dates, and kept pushing them back as he grew older. But he was unusually firm in naming 2060 more than others, which included 2034 and much later. Given the nice roundness of the number, and the fact that it appears in more than one letter, the media have seized on it as the founder of classical mechanic’s apocalyptic projection.
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