Jovial (21 Dec 2014)
"Newton Predicted the Year 2060"


I have read Newton's commentary on Daniel, but his prediction on when Yeshua would return was actually 2060 AD, a figure he got from adding 1,260 years to 800 AD, when Charlemagne was coronated king of the Holy Roman Empire.  Does anyone know if the entire text of his prediction about this is online somewhere?  He put this in a letter to a friend, and there is a large part of it quoted at http://opentheword.org/2013/10/16/sir-isaac-newton-predicted-world-would-end-in-2060-ad/ , but I'd like to read the entire letter from start to finish and see the whole thing in context.

I am not sure where some people have quoted him as saying the world would end in 2016.  I guess since 2016 and 2060 sound something alike verbally they may have misunderstood what someone spoke to them.  But unless someone knows of 2 conflicting predictions he made, the 2016 number is probably a misunderstanding.  He definitely did predict 2060.

At http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/nov2014/jim1130-1.htm , it was said Newton added 49 years to 1967.  Where?  Where did he suggest anything special would happen in 1967?  To me, that sounds more like a post 1967 concept retrofitted to Newton's name or something.  Can anyone quote from Newton's writings where he said anything other than 2060?  http://opentheword.org/2013/10/16/sir-isaac-newton-predicted-world-would-end-in-2060-ad/ quotes his 2060 prediction.  Anybody got another one? 

Shalom,

Joe