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9. Newton, “Miscellaneous draft portions of Theologiæ Gentilis Origines Philosophicæ,” www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/translation/TRAN00010.
10. Travels of John Mandeville, ll. 1433–43, www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/tkfrm.htm.
11. Berlitz, The Lost Ship, 20–21, 23.
12. Berlitz, The Lost Ship, 31–42; 88–97; 101.
13. Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, 460.
14. Vavra, Unicorns I Have Known, 56.
15. Noorbergen, Secrets of the Lost Races, 121.
16. Newton, “Draft Chapters of a Treatise on the Origin of Religion and Its Corruption,” www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00077.
17. Newton, “Draft Chapters of a Treatise on the Origin of Religion and Its Corruption,” www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00077.
18. Gilgamesh, Gardner and Maier, notes to tablet 11, 233.
19. Newton, dimensions of Noah’s ark, in Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms.
20. Minov, “Noah and the Flood in Gnosticism,” in Noah and His Book(s), ed. Stone et al., 215.
21. Newton, “Of the Church,” in the Bodmer MS, qtd. in Goldish, Judaism in the Theology of Newton, 41
22. Newton, “Irenicum, or Ecclesiastical Polyty Tending to Peace.”
23. Plato, Timaeus, 2:8 (sec. 22c).
24. Hawking, qtd. in www.businessinsider.com/stephen-hawking-predictions-about-the-end-of-the-world-2016-1.
25. From the movie description, www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692.
26. From the description here: www.amazon.com/Worlds-Collide-Bison-Frontiers-Imagination/dp/0803298145.
27. Newton, “Treatise on Revelation,” section 2, www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00270.
28. Newton, “Untitled Treatise on Revelation,” section 1.1, www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00135.
29. Newton, Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, part 1, chap. 3, www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00197.
30. Westfall, Never at Rest, 325.
31. Amihay and Machiela, “Traditions of the Birth of Noah,” in Stone, Amihay, and Hillel, Noah and His Book(s), 65, 66.
32. Amihay and Machiela, “Traditions of the Birth of Noah,” in Stone, Amihay, and Hillel, Noah and His Book(s), 63.
33. Machiela, “Genesis Apocryphon,” 183.
34. Amihay and Machiela, “Traditions of the Birth of Noah,” 57.
35. Machiela, “Genesis Apocryphon,” 102.
36. Amihay and Machiela, “Traditions of the Birth of Noah,” 104.
37. Cranston and Williams, Reincarnation: A New Horizon in Science, Religion, and Society, 188.
38. Westfall, Never at Rest, 352.
39. Newton, “Draft Chapters of a Treatise on the Origin of Religion and Its Corruption,” chap. 2, www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00077.
40. Newton, “Miscellaneous Draft Portions of ‘Theologiæ Gentilis Origines Philosophicæ,’” www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/translation/TRAN00010.
41. Newton, “Miscellaneous Draft Portions of ‘Theologiæ Gentilis Origines Philosophicæ,’” www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/translation/TRAN00010.
42. Newton, “Miscellaneous Draft Portions of ‘Theologiæ Gentilis Origines Philosophicæ,’” www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/translation/TRAN00010.
43. Newton, “Draft Chapters of a Treatise on the Origin of Religion and Its Corruption,” chap. 2.
44. Newton, “Draft Chapters of a Treatise on the Origin of Religion and Its Corruption,” chap. 2.
45. Markley, “Newton, Corruption, and the Tradition of Universal History,” 138.
46. Newton, “Theologiae Gentiles Origines Philosophicae,” www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00260.
47. Newton, “Draft Chapters of a Treatise on the Origin of Religion and Its Corruption,” chap. 2.
48. Newton, “Draft Chapters of a Treatise on the Origin of Religion and Its Corruption,” chap. 2.
49. Newton, “Draft Chapters of a Treatise on the Origin of Religion and Its Corruption,” chap. 2.
50. Newton, “Miscellaneous Draft Portions of ‘Theologiæ Gentilis Origines Philosophicæ.’”
51. Knoespel, “Interpretive Strategies,” 183.
CHAPTER ELEVEN. IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET
1. Flaste et al., New York Times Guide to the Return of Halley’s Comet, 75–76.
2. Stach, Kafka, 16.
3. Flaste et al., New York Times Guide to the Return of Halley’s Comet, 186.
4. Flaste et al., New York Times Guide to the Return of Halley’s Comet, 50.
5. Yeomans, Comets, 20.
6. Qtd. in Yeomans, Comets, 20.
7. Flammarion, Omega, 149–50.
8. Ackroyd, Newton, 72.
9. Flammarion, Omega, 150.
10. Qtd. in Westfall, Never at Rest, 391.
11. Manuel, Portrait, 295.
12. Dobbs, The Janus Faces of Genius, 236.
13. Dobbs, The Janus Faces of Genius, 236.
14. Blake, “A Vision of the Last Judgment,” in G. Keynes, Poetry and Prose, 652.
15. Blake, “Jerusalem” (15:15–18), in G. Keynes, Poetry and Prose, 449.
16. Dobbs, The Janus Faces of Genius, 234.
17. Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (hereafter cited as Principia), 372. (See also Principia, 359.)
18. Dobbs, The Janus Faces of Genius, 83.
19. Dobbs, The Janus Faces of Genius, 83.
20. Dobbs, The Janus Faces of Genius, 240.
21. Qtd. in Haycock, William Stukeley, 79.
22. Newton, Principia, 368.
23. Dobbs, The Janus Faces of Genius, 24.
24. Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 2:1426.
25. Qtd. in Force, Whiston, 129.
26. Stukeley, qtd. in Westfall, Never at Rest, 194.
27. Newton, Optics, book 3, part 1, 543.
28. Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield, 30.
29. Donnelly, Meehan, “Whiston’s Flood,” http://web.stanford.edu/~meehan/donnelly/whiston.html.
30. Force, Whiston, xiii.
31. Milton, Paradise Lost, 10.668–80.
32. Whiston, New Theory, book 2, “Hypothesis,” 111.
33. Milton, Paradise Lost, 12, 627–29, 632–34.
34. Whiston, A New Theory, 13, 471.
35. Force, Whiston, 32.
36. Force, Whiston, 13.
37. Manuel, Isaac Newton, Historian, 143.
38. Force, Whiston, 29.
39. Force, Whiston, 20.
40. Force, Whiston, 133–37.
41. Halley, “Saltiness,” Notes and Records, 296.
42. Voltaire, Le Siècle de Louis XIV, vol. 2, 378, (author’s translation).
43. Abraham de Moivre, qtd. in Westfall, Never at Rest, 403.
44. Westfall, Never at Rest, 404.
45. Halley, “Saltiness,” Notes and Records, 296.
46. Newton, Principia [III], 367.
47. Newton, Principia [III], 354.
48. Qtd. in Manuel, A Portrait, 252.
49. Conduitt, “Account of a conversation between Newton and Conduitt,” March 7, 1724, www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00173.
50. Conduitt, “Account of a conversation between Newton and Conduitt,” March 7, 1724, www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00173.
51. Conduitt, “Account of a conversation between Newton and Conduitt,” March 7, 1724, www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00173.
52. Force, Whiston, 134.
53. Force, Whiston, 135.
CHAPTER TWELVE. DECONSTRUCTING TIME
1. Krawcewicz et al., “Investigation of the Correctness of the Historical Dating,” http://wayback.archive.org/web/20060209081746/ http://www.revisedhistory.org:80/investigation-historical-dating.htm.
2. “History: Fiction or Science,” description of Fomenko et a
l.’s History: Fiction or Science, on CreateSpace website, www.createspace.com/6007705.
3. “Classical History Is a Lie Created to Control You,” www.rexdeus.com/wp/secret-societies/history-lie-created-control.
4. Westfall, Never at Rest, 815.
5. Chazelle, interview, “Discovering the Cosmology of Bach,” American Public Media, https://onbeing.org/programs/bernard-chazelle-discovering-the-cosmology-of-bach.
6. Castillejo, Expanding Force in Newton’s Cosmos, 82.
7. Castillejo, Expanding Force in Newton’s Cosmos, 91, 81.
8. Frye, Anatomy of Criticism, 354.
9. Cress, “Review,” Newton’s Revised History of Ancient Kingdoms: A Complete Chronology, Amazon.com, July 30, 2009.
10. Dry, The Newton Papers, 160, 162.
11. Manuel, Religion, 98.
12. Pierce, “Chronology Wars,” www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v6/n1/chronology-wars.
13. Manuel, Isaac Newton, Historian, 90.
14. Newton, Chronology, 43.
15. Manuel, Isaac Newton, Historian, 30.
16. Castillejo, Expanding Force in Newton’s Cosmos, 22.
17. Qtd. in Westfall, Never at Rest, 154.
18. Newton, Chronology, 151.
19. Castillejo, Expanding Force in Newton’s Cosmos, 81.
20. Newton, Chronology, 21, 26.
21. Manuel, Isaac Newton, Historian, 57.
22. Voltaire [François Marie Arouet], “Letters on Newton” from the Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques, ca. 1778, www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1778voltaire-newton.asp.
23. Castillejo, Expanding Force in Newton’s Cosmos, 43, 44.
24. Manuel, Isaac Newton, Historian, 128.
25. Newton, “The Original of Monarchies,” www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00040.
26. Gibbon, Decline and Fall, 1:170.
27. Gibbon, Decline and Fall, 1:170.
28. Buchwald and Feingold, Newton and the Origin of Civilization, 166.
29. Buchwald and Feingold, Newton and the Origin of Civilization, 167, 168.
30. Buchwald and Feingold, Newton and the Origin of Civilization, 168, 169.
31. Qtd. in Buchwald and Feingold, Newton and the Origin of Civilization, 215.
32. Buchwald and Feingold, Newton and the Origin of Civilization, 220.
33. Raleigh and Wallis qtd. in Buchwald and Feingold, Newton and the Origin of Civilization, 213.
34. Buchwald and Feingold, Newton and the Origin of Civilization, 214.
35. Johnson, History of the Jews, 120.
36. Manuel, Isaac Newton, Historian, 137.
37. Manuel, Isaac Newton, Historian, 138.
38. Buchwald and Feingold, Newton and the Origin of Civilization, 306.
39. Reé, “I Tooke a Bodkin,” review of Newton and the Origin of Civilization by J. Z. Buchwald and M. Feingold, London Review of Books 35, no. 19 (October 10, 2013): 16–18, www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n19/jonathan-ree/i-tooke-a-bodkine.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. CHIRON AND THE STAR GLOBE
1. Qtd. in Allen, Star Names, 149.
2. Greaves, Zaller, and Roberts, Civilizations of the West, 62–63.
3. Rieu, introduction to Apollonius, Voyage of the Argo, 21.
4. Newton, Chronology, chap. 1, “Of the Chronology of the First Ages of the Greeks,” www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00186.
5. Newton, Chronology, chap. 1, “Of the Chronology of the First Ages of the Greeks,” www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00186.
6. Twain, Innocents Abroad, 410.
7. Asimov, Double Planet, 106–8.
8. Aratos, Phaenomena, 155, ll. 1122–24.
9. Qtd. in Allen, Star Names, 113.
10. Allen, Star Names, 17.
11. Newton, “Notes on Ancient Religions,” www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/translation/TRAN00012.
12. Buchwald and Feingold, Newton and the Origin of Civilization, 324.
13. Newton, “Drafts on Chronology: Section 2d,” www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00402.
14. Buchwald and Feingold, Newton and the Origin of Civilization, 293–94.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. A GLITTER OF ATLANTIS
1. Qtd. in Mifsud et al., Malta, 54.
2. Glassie, Man of Misconceptions, 88–89.
3. De Santillana and von Dechend, Hamlet’s Mill, 209.
4. De Santillana and von Dechend, Hamlet’s Mill, 209.
5. Mifsud et al., Malta, 56.
6. Plutarch, The Lives of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, 132.
7. Plutarch, The Lives of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, 104, 132.
8. Herodotus, Histories, sec. 29.
9. Plato, Timaeus, in Dialogues, 2:8.
10. Pierce, “Chronology Wars,” www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v6/n1/chronology-wars.
11. Newton, Chronology, 43.
12. Newton, Chronology, 231.
13. Newton, Chronology, 231.
14. Luce, The End of Atlantis, 38.
15. Luce, The End of Atlantis, 136.
16. Newton, Chronology, 45, 133, 135.
17. Newton, Chronology, 181.
18. Newton, Chronology, 229.
19. Mifsud et al., Malta, 54, 42.
20. Adams, “My Quest for Atlantis,” March 20, 2015.
21. Newton, Chronology, 231–32.
22. Newton, Chronology, 234.
23. Qtd. in Buchwald and Feingold, Newton and the Origin of Civilization, 218.
24. Newton, Chronology, 233–34.
25. Newton, Chronology, 233.
26. Qtd. in Luce, The End of Atlantis, 13.
27. Qtd. in Luce, The End of Atlantis, 13.
28. Jowett’s introduction to Plato’s Critias, www.gutenberg.org/files/1571/1571-h/1571-h.htm#link2H_INTR.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN. THE SECRET OF LIFE
1. Dobbs, The Janus Faces of Genius, 55.
2. White, Isaac Newton, 137.
3. Dobbs, The Janus Faces of Genius, 13.
4. Westfall, Never at Rest, 286.
5. Qtd. in Brewster, Life of Newton, 2:98, www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/OTHE00077.
6. White, Isaac Newton, 137.
7. White, Isaac Newton, 137; Bosveld, “Isaac Newton, World’s Most Famous Alchemist,” Discover, July-Aug, 2010; and NOVA, “Newton’s Dark Secrets,” www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/newton-dark-secrets.html.
8. Lequeuvre, “Le jardin secret de Newton,” 54.
9. Needham, Science and Civilization in China, 2:82.
10. Manuel, A Portrait, 163.
11. Qtd. in Brewster, Life of Newton, 2:94, www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/OTHE00077.
12. Castillejo, Expanding Force in Newton’s Cosmos, 17, 21–22.
13. Needham, Science and Civilization in Ancient China, 4:455.
14. Manuel, A Portrait, 178.
15. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 107.
16. “William Newman Project,” www.indiana.edu/~college/WilliamNewmanProject.shtml, quoted in Dr. Faustall, Pataphysica 4, 172.
17. Santillana, Hamlet’s Mill, 178.
18. Lovelock, The Ages of Gaia.
19. Thompson, Imaginary Landscapes, 37.
20. Principe and Newman, “Newton’s Dark Secrets,” NOVA, www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/newton-dark-secrets.html.
21. Manuel, A Portrait, 169.
22. John Wickins, qtd. in Brewster, Life of Newton, 7.
23. Manuel, A Portrait, 169.
24. Qtd. in Manuel, A Portrait, 172.
25. Manuel, A Portrait, 173.
26. Golinski, “The Secret Life of an Alchemist,” 160.
27. Manuel, A Portrait, 175–76.
28. Qtd. in Dobbs, The Janus Faces of Genius, 23.
29. Newton, “Letter from Newton to Henry Oldenburg,” 26 April 1676, www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/NATP00268.
30. Needham, Science and Civilization in Ancient China, 4:408.
31. Boyle, A Historical Account of the Degradation of Gold by an Anti-Elixir, www.levity.com/alchemy/boyle.html.
32. Bosveld, “Isaac Newton: World’s Most Famous Alchemist.”
33. Brewster, Life of Newton, 121–22.
34. Brewster, Life of Newton, 123.
35. Brewster, Life of Newton, 123.
36. Newman, “Isaac Newton, World’s Most Famous Alchemist,” Discover (July–August 2010); “Newton’s Dark Secrets,” NOVA.
37. Newman, “Isaac Newton, World’s Most Famous Alchemist,” Discover (July–August 2010); “Newton’s Dark Secrets,” NOVA.
38. White, Isaac Newton, 145.
39. Dobbs, Janus Faces of Genius, 13.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN. MASTERS OF THE PRISCA SAPIENTIA, PART 1
1. Lawrence, Fantasia, 54–55.
2. Allen, Star Names, 17–18.
3. Qtd. in Noorbergen, Secrets of the Lost Races, 130–31.
4. McGuire and Rattansi, “Newton and the ‘Pipes of Pan,’” 109 (translation by author).
5. McGuire and Rattansi, “Newton and the ‘Pipes of Pan,’” 110.
6. Gregory,Elementa astronomiae, https://archive.org/details/elementsofastron00greg.
7. Dolnick, The Clockwork Universe, 36–37.
8. McGuire and Rattansi, “Newton and the ‘Pipes of Pan,’” 113.
9. Qtd. in Heath, Aristarchus of Samos, back cover.
10. Durant, Life of Greece, 169.
11. Qtd. in Heath, Aristarchus of Samos, 299.
12. Archimedes, qtd. in Heath, Aristarchus of Samos, 302.
13. Qtd. in Durant, Life of Greece, 653.
14. Durant, Life of Greece, 654.
15. Durant, Life of Greece, 340, 341.
16. Durant, Life of Greece, 654.
17. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 2.3.
18. Plutarch, Lives of Ancient Greeks and Romans, 200.
19. Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 3.8.
20. Copleston, History of Philosophy, 1.2.32.
21. Plutarch, Lives of Ancient Greeks and Romans, 188.
22. Plutarch, Lives of Ancient Greeks and Romans, 201.
23. Plutarch, Lives of Ancient Greeks and Romans, 185, 187.
24. Plutarch, Lives of Ancient Greeks and Romans, 76–77.
25. Plutarch, Lives of Ancient Greeks and Romans, 80–81.
26. Hobbes qtd. in Durant, Louis XIV, 558.
27. Qtd. in Dobbs, Janus Faces of Genius, 187.
28. Newton, “Notes on Ancient Religions,” www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/translation/TRAN00012.