Sir Isaac Newton 1642 -
1727
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Sir
Isaac Newton was born to a farming family in Woolsthotpe, Lincolnshire on 25
December 1642 (4 January 1643 in the Gregorian calendar). He received a
bachelor's degree at Trinity College Cambridge in 1665, became a Fellow of
Trinity College in 1667 and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in
1669. During his period at Cambridge he became responsible for some of the most
enduring results in mathematics and physics. He co-discovered the Calculus,
with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. As a physicist he discovered the composition of
white light. He explored the mechanics of planetary motion and proposed the
three fundamental laws of mechanics, the law of gravitation and the inverse
square law. In 1687 he published the "Principia", generally regarded
the most significant scientific book ever written, and embodying his
discoveries. In 1672 Newton was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.Newton
became Warden of the Royal Mint in 1696 and Masterof the Mint in 1699. In 1703
Newton was elected President of the Royal Society and re-elected as such every
year until his death. He published "Opticks", which discussed
Newton's rings and diffractions as well as his theories on the composition of
light. in 1704. He was knighted by Queen Anne in 1705. In his later life he did
not engage in scientific research. He took a direct interest in the operations
of the Mint and became wealthy. Newton's life was clouded in controversy with a
number of people, such as Hooke, over the origin of the inverse square law and
who had claimed he stole ideas in optics from him, and with Leibniz over the
origins of the calculus. Newton died in London in 1727.
1.
Written by Peter Taylor, January 2001, the Australian Mathematics Trust Website
at http://www.amt.canberra.edu.au/newton.html
Prophecies
§
"Our
society is built upon the observation of repetitive phenomena which recur as we
anticipate them, and we tend to exclude from our 'logic' those phenomena which
are not repetitive, or whose cycles are difficult to ascertain. We prize and use
electricity even though we cannot understand what it is, because it is
predictable.Prophecy is unacceptable until the prophet has been proven
accurate. Fact and prediction may organize our lives, but prophecy opens up the
mystery and essence of life."
§
"About
the time of the end, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their
attention to the Prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in
the midst of much clamor and opposition."
On
Biblical Prophecy
§
"Seventy weeks
are cut out upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression,
etc. Here, by putting a week for seven years, are reckoned 490 years from, the
time the dispersed Jews should be re-incorporated into a people and a holy
city, until the death and resurrection of Christ; whereby transgression should
be finished, and sins ended, iniquity be expiated, and everlasting
righteousness brought in and this Vision be accomplished and the Prophet
consummated, that Prophet whom the Jews expected; and whereby the the most Holy
should be anointed, he who is therefore in the next words called the Anointed,
that is, the Messiah, or the Christ. For by joining the acconplishment of the
vision with the expiation of sins, the 490 years are ended with the death of
Christ."
§
"…Now the
dispersed Jews became a people and city when they first returned…in the seventh
year of Artaxerxes Longimanus when Ezra returned with a body of Jews from
captivity, and revived the Jewish worship;…to judge & govern the people according
to the laws of God & the King, (Ezra vii.25) There were but two returns
from captivity, Zerubbabel's and Ezra's; in Zerubbabel's they had only the
commission to build the Temple, in Ezra's they first became a city by a
government of their own. Now the years of this Artaxerxes...was in the year
(458 B.C.) Count the time from thence to the death of Christ, and you will find
it just 490 years."
§
"…And in
half a week he shall cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease; that is, by the
war of the Romans upon the Jews: which war, after some commotions, began in the
13th year of Nero , A.D. 67, in the Spring when Vespasian with an army invaded
them; and ended in the second year of Vespasian, A.D. 70, in autumn, September
7 when Titus took the city, having burnt the Temple 27 days before: so that it
lasted three years and an half."
§
"…Thus
have we in this short Prophecy, a prediction of all the main periods relating
to the coming of the Messiah; the time of his birth, that of his death, that of
the rejection of the Jews, the duration of the Jewish war whereby he caused the
city and sanctuary to be destroyed, and the time of his second coming: and so
the interpretation here given is more full and complete and adequate to the
design, than if we should restrain it to his first coming only, as Interpreters
usually do. We avoid also the doing violence to the language of Daniel, by
taking the 7 weeks and 62 weeks for one number. Had that been Daniel's meaning,
he would have said sixty and nine weeks, and not seven weeks and sixty two
weeks, a way of numbering used by no nation." 2
2. Taken from Futureverse
website. No longer online. (hard copy available upon request)