The Bible hit Newton's head
- Lincolnshire (England), 1665 or 1666. Isaac Newton (1643-1727) returned to Woolsthorpe Manor to his mother's house, due to the bubonic plague that forced the University of Cambridge to close its doors.
One day, in the garden, he fell an apple of an apple tree and hit him in the head. Newton himself never wrote the passage, and although many biographers claimed that seeing an apple fall inspired the theory of gravity, it seems that the headstroke was a spur. But what Newton thought was already the Bible. In addition to making great contributions to science, he worked in other fields that today seem incompatible. He wrote a million words about alchemy and three million words about theology.
Combining mathematics with Daniel's book of the Bible, Newton calculated when the Revelation would be: “Then ‘time, times and half of a time’ are 42 months, or 1,260 days or 3 and a half years, counting 12 months a year and 30 days a month, as they did in the calendar of the year of origin. Starting from the conquest of the three kings of 800 years after Christ, and adding up the days of the beasts of short life and the kingdoms that were there, the period of 1,260 days will end in the year 2060 after Christ.” So far the explanation seemed incomprehensible, but it needs to be. However, the following sentence subtracts the research into an obvious scientific tint: “It could end later, but not earlier.” And just in case, he added other dates where he might be right: 2344, 2370…
But, calmly, Newton did not associate apocalypse with destruction and the end of the world: according to his reading, the second coming of Christ in 2060 – or later – will be a kind of cleanup, but the world will go ahead.
Unfortunately, Newton's theological predictions are partly justified by current scientific studies. And then Christ will not save us either.
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