The world will end in 2060, according to Newton (UK)

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The world will end in 2060, according to Newton
19.06.07


His famously analytical mind worked out the laws of gravity and unravelled the motion of the planets.

And when it came to predicting the end of the world, Sir Isaac Newton was just as precise.

He believed the Apocalypse would come in 2060 – exactly 1,260 years after the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire, according to a recently published letter.


Luckily for modern scientists in awe of his achievements, Newton based this figure on religion rather than reasoning.

In a letter from 1704 which has gone on show in Jerusalem's Hebrew University, Newton uses the Bible's Book of Daniel to calculate the date for the Apocalypse.


The note reveals a deeply spiritual side to a man more usually regarded as a strict rationalist.

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and involved himself in spirituality. Anyone who thinks of him as strictly a scientist and mathematician is missing a lot of the complexity of his character.

...or the other for me!

I wish they'd all get together and get their dates straight. How's a person supposed to plan?

That already happened. We are in transition now. New world (according to what I have read of the Mayan time-frame) starts in 2012. That is to be the world of ether. We are leaving the world of material

And I am sending you this message via the use of an ether-net card in my computer. Those old Mayans may have been on to sumthin! ;)

that the world was going to end in 2012. They just thought that the world would be entering a shift in spiritual "awareness". They don't actually peg the end of the world until 3000 years or so later. Then again that information is probably just as reliable as any of it. Here's an extensive website I just found enumerating what appears to be a host of 2012 apocalypse prognosticators:

http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/new.htm

Ahhh... Fun stuff.
Reminds me of those heady days back before the armageddon of 2000.
I don't know why I want to believe this stuff, but for some weird reason, I do. I have garnered enough skepticism to have the "I'll believe it when I see it" attitude. However, I be partying like a madman on 12/11/2012.

And good morning yardwork, my mower and me will be meeting you after lunch :)

that 1) the world would end at the dawn of year 2000; and later 2) the shrub would be assassinated in 2006. Wrong on both counts. I'm not a big believer in the ability to predict future events.

On the other hand, my daughter could easily still be around -- she'll be 83.

I always miss all of the exciting stuff.

Only by those who know nothing about him!

My impression was that outside of giving the world integral calculus and the laws of motion, he was pretty much a wacko. I tend to forgive him his lunacy on account of his accomplishments, however.

Many of the pioneers of the Scientific Revolution (Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler) were heavily into crazy mystical Neo-Platonist philosophy and other woo woo and that mysticism was the inspirational root of a lot of their theorizing. The notion that the pioneers of the Scientific Revolution were supremely rational supermen is nonsense. There was a lot of woo floating around the early scientific community until around the late 1700s.

You sure that was Isaac and not Wayne that predicted the end of Las Vegas?

And Casey after Atlantis rises up from the bottom of the sea?