Yemima Ben-Menahem, one of the curators of the exhibition, said: "These documents show a scientist of religious zeal, desiring that God's action in the world."Records € "the more prosaic notes prices, including its income and Tin €" they are for sale at the end of the first 250 years of Portsmouth in 1930, Earl of home in a crate.
Retains many of the Israel National Library until 1969.
Isaac Newton's religious side of the display of the document
Three centuries-old manuscripts by Isaac Newton calculating the exact date of the Apocalypse, detailing the exact size of the ancient temple of Jerusalem and interpreting passages of the Bible - exhibited this week for the first time - lay bare the little-known religious intensity of a man that many of the greatest scientists of all time.Newton, who died 280 years ago, is known for creating the basis for most of modern physics, astronomy, mathematics and optics. But a new exhibition in Jerusalem, it seems, as a scholar of deep faith who also found time to write on Jewish law - even wrote a few phrases in careful Hebrew letters - and combing the Old Testament book of Daniel showed at the end of the world.
The documents, which were purchased by a Jewish scholar at a Sotheby auction in London in 1936 kept in safes at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem since 1969. Available for decades only a small number of scholars who have never been seen in public.In a manuscript of the early 1700s, Newton used the cryptic Book of Daniel to calculate the date of the apocalypse, reaching the conclusion that the world does not stop before 2060th"I have no reason to stop now, then it may be ending," Newton wrote. But they were not: I am at the end of this time ", and is usually a fictional speculation rash man, and that time was the last stop and noticed that, in most cases, the sacred unpopular failed prophecies of their future."
In another document, Newton interpreted biblical prophecies to mean that Jews must return to the Holy Land before the end of the world. The end of the day is "the ruin of the wicked nations, the end of weeping and of all the problems, the return of the Jews from captivity and his creation of a flourishing and everlasting Kingdom," he argued.Die Ausstellung umfasst auch Abhandlungen über die tägliche Praxis in den jüdischen Tempel in Jerusalem. In einem Dokument, diskutiert Newton die genauen Abmessungen des Tempels - die Pläne für die Bereitstellung des Kosmos zu widerstehen, so glaubte er - und zog. Ein weiteres Papier enthält Wörter in Hebräisch, einschließlich einer Reihe von jüdischen Gebetbuch.
Ben-Menahem Yemima, einer der Kuratoren der Ausstellung, sagte die Papiere zeigen Newton Überzeugung, dass wichtiges Wissen wurde in den alten Texten versteckt."He believed that wisdom in the world that was lost. He thought it was coded, and that by studying things like the dimensions of the temple could not decipher me," he said.
The Newton papers, Ben-Menahem said, also complicate the idea that science is diametrically opposed to religion. "These documents show a scientist by religious zeal, the desire that the actions carried out God in the world," he said.After the Queen Suzuan, laukikavannu display show Newton, a detailed documentation of your income and expenses are provided by a group of miners kornvalanallina rate of Devon, if not a scholar in Cambridge to discuss Detection of mint as a master.
The archives include the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1940 a letter from Albert Einstein to Abraham Shalom Yahuda, the collector who purchased the securities a year earlier.
Newton's religious writings, wrote Einstein, are "a series of sketches and ongoing changes that are an interesting mental laboratory of this unique thinker."This entry was posted on Monday, is 30 November 2009 at 00.16 clock ET in America in prophecy, science filed. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.