The Metaphysical World of Isaac Newton

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by John Chambers


  synchronistical necessity, 38, 41–42

  Temples, 132–33, 135–36, 140–41

  Whore of Babylon, 21, 29, 129,

  161–63, 186

  woman clothed in the sun, 21, 132,

  161, 162, 168–69

  Boyle, Robert, 28, 60, 304, 308, 309,

  315, 319–20, 321–23

  Brewster, David, 322–23

  Bruno, Giordano, 178, 330

  Buchwald, Jed Z., 29, 270, 286–87

  Buñuel, Luis, 68, 99, 102–3, 104, 116,

  117

  Cassini, Jean-Dominique, 193

  Castillejo, David, 62, 150, 186, 190,

  254, 256, 257–58, 263, 270, 314

  Cave, William, 71, 110

  celibacy, 10, 100, 122–23, 125, 367

  Champion, Justin, 49

  Chazelle, Bernard, 253, 253n, 254

  Chiron, 271–73, 274, 276, 283–86

  Chomsky, Noam, 28–29, 385

  chronology, global, 251–52, 257–58,

  262, 267–69, 272, 287, 292

  Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms

  Amended (Newton), 252–55,

  253n, 255n, 256–57, 263, 270,

  292–93

  Atlantis, 289, 293, 294, 295–96,

  300–302

  Castillejo, 254, 257–58, 263, 270

  constellations, 272–73

  Cress, 255–56

  Jews, 131, 256, 261, 263, 266,

  267–68, 269

  law of length of reigns, 260,

  261–62, 262n

  law of parsimony, 258–61

  Pierce, 257

  repopulation of world, 263–65

  Saturn (god), 194, 212–13, 214

  Whiston, 236

  Church of the Great Martyrium,

  108–9, 109n, 110

  Church of the Martyrs, 88, 88n, 94

  Cleanthes, 305, 334–36, 335n

  Clement of Alexandria, 267, 271,

  284, 285

  comet(s)

  divine plan, 223, 224–27, 226–27n,

  229–30, 230–31n

  and Flood, 232–33, 243–44

  Great Comet of 1680, 221–22,

  224, 225, 230–31, 230–31n,

  232, 233–34, 242, 243, 244–45,

  246–49

  Halley’s comet, 218–19, 219n, 230,

  237, 242–43, 244

  omens, 219–20, 219n

  Principia (Newton), 222–23,

  224–25, 244–45

  comma Johanneum (“John’s phrase”),

  49–50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 57–58

  Conduitt, Catherine Barton, 11,

  246–48

  Conduitt, John, 245–46, 248, 249,

  249n, 259, 318, 319

  Conrad, Joseph, 141–43, 147–48,

  149, 151, 159, 161–62, 164, 221,

  221n, 374

  consciousness, state of, 331, 344,

  388

  Constantine the Great, 68, 72–73,

  82, 109

  and Arius, 78–79, 81, 83, 98, 109

  and Athanasius, 97, 98, 109, 110,

  111, 113

  Christianity, 72–73, 76, 88–89,

  150, 161

  Church of the Great Martyrium,

  108–9, 109n, 110

  Council of Nicaea, 73, 74, 75, 116

  Council of Tyre, 97, 98, 109, 110,

  113

  idolatry/religious relics, 72, 78, 79,

  108–9, 150

  statute of, 77–78, 79

  Constantius II (emperor), 82, 85,

  114–16, 117, 118

  Cooper, William, 305–7, 309

  Copernicus, Nicholas, 275, 330,

  331–32

  Coppola, Francis Ford, 142–43

  corruptions of Scripture

  anti-Trinitarianism, 49, 55–56

  Athanasius, 69

  Book of Revelation, 140

  Küng, 57–58, 88

  letters from Newton, 44–46,

  48–51, 56–58, 63–64, 140,

  392–97

  Newton, 69, 76–77, 373

  Trinitarianism, 58

  Council at Alexandria, 93, 112–13

  Council of Constantinople, 75,

  118–19, 139

  Council of Nicaea, 63, 68, 73–74,

  73n, 88, 149–50

  Arius, 74–75, 77, 80–81, 89

  Athanasius, 70–71, 74–75, 89,

  116

  Constantine, 116

  corruptions of Scripture, 50, 58

  Great Apostasy, 139

  Nicene Creed, 89, 139

  Cress, L., 255–56

  Cromwell, Oliver, 38, 47–48, 178–79,

  180

  cycles concept, 205–6

  Cyprian, 33, 69

  Cyril of Alexandria, 91

  David (king), 130, 181–82n, 255–56,

  267, 269

  day-equals-year formula, 42, 167–68,

  184, 185, 186–87, 188, 190

  decomposition, 303–4, 313

  Descartes, René, 8, 361

  Dick, Hugh G., 375–76

  Dio Chrysostom, 90

  Diocletian’s persecution of Christians,

  70, 74, 84, 86, 98, 105, 148

  Dionysius, 20, 99, 100, 101–3, 105, 112

  Dobbs, B. J., 61, 223, 224, 225, 226,

  324, 387

  Dolnick, Edward, 10, 329–30, 382

  Dreyer, J. L. E., 332

  Drosnin, Michael, 23–24, 25–26

  Dry, Sara, 180

  Durant, Will, 19, 111

  du Temps, Jean, 266

  earthquakes, 22, 149, 150, 237, 249, 276

  Ehrman, Bart D., 58

  Einstein, Albert, 2, 12, 350, 361, 384

  Emerald Tablet, 313, 412–13

  Empedocles, 185, 358

  End Times, 32, 152, 175–76, 177–78,

  179, 183–84, 191

  Enlightenment, 236, 270, 302, 383

  Enoch (patriarch), 128–29, 197–98,

  209–10, 326–27

  Epicurus, 122, 329, 358

  Epiphanius, 87, 88n

  Erasmus, Desiderius, 51–55

  Eudoxus of Cnidus, 279–80, 281,

  282–84, 287

  euhemerus, 211–13, 212–13n

  Eumalos of Cyrene, 289

  Eusebians, 88, 89, 92, 94, 97, 98

  Eusebius (archbishop of Nicodemia), 85

  Eusebius of Caesarea, 99, 101, 105,

  110, 112, 154, 258, 267, 294

  Eusebius Pamphilus, 39, 72–73, 73n, 74

  Ezekiel (prophet), 131, 167, 177, 181n,

  185, 185n, 191–92, 197, 207, 208

  Fatio de Duillier, Nicholas, 10–11,

  30, 327–28, 366–67, 367n

  Feingold, Mordechai, 29, 270, 286–87

  Finch, Anne, Viscountess of Conway,

  45n, 309, 310n

  Flamsteed, John, 10, 220, 221, 222,

  222n, 244, 365, 383

  Flaubert, Gustave, 120–21, 181n

  flood, Ogygian, 289, 294–95

  flood of fire (diluvium ignis), 17,

  152–54, 155, 158–59

  Fomenko, A. T., 251–52, 258, 262

  Force, James T., 4–5

  Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,

  21, 29, 144–48

  Galileo Galilei, 8, 195, 330, 364–65

  Gibbon, Edward

  on Arius, 80

  on Athanasius, 71, 82, 117–18

  Church of Egypt, 88

  comets and divine plan, 230–31n

  on Constantius, 115

  Council of Nicaea, 73n, 74

  on Diocletian, 86

  on Newton, 115

  “Paradoxical Questions” (Newton),

  66

  repopulation of world, 264–65

  on Severus, 147

  on Whiston, 227

  Gilgamesh epic, 197, 203, 210,

  288–89

  Gjertsen, Derek, 380–81

  Gleick, James, 6
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  global warming, 17–18, 18n, 22, 152,

  152n, 154, 155, 376, 385, 388–89

  God, love/worship of

  through alchemy, 319

  ancestor worship versus, 216

  anti-Trinitarianism, 387–88

  idolatry/religious relics, 215, 360

  John of Patmos era, 26

  Manuel, 372

  Newton, 59, 60, 63, 139, 161, 162,

  205, 372, 376, 381, 386–88

  Noah, 204, 216

  Numa, 345

  Westfall, 211

  God, proof of existence of, 6, 26,

  31–32, 40, 43, 59–60, 382–83,

  383n

  God’s divine plan

  alchemy, 318–19

  Book of Daniel, 35–36, 41

  celestial bodies, 349–50

  comets, 223, 224–27, 226–27n,

  230–31n

  earthquakes, 237, 249

  gravity, 330, 354

  Jerusalem, 180–81

  mathematics, 352

  Moses, 226–27n

  Newton, 228, 228n, 238, 248, 381,

  382–83, 384

  prophetic books, 31–32, 35–36, 37,

  41

  Revelation, 32, 35–36, 37, 387

  Goff, Matt, 32, 41

  Goldish, Matt, 134–35

  Gozo island, 288, 289, 294–95, 296,

  297, 298, 299–300

  gravity

  and the Flood, 233–34

  as God’s divine plan, 330, 354

  Hooke, 241

  Newton, 193, 243, 259, 330, 350,

  353–54, 372–73

  Plato, 328

  Pythagoras, 325, 328, 350

  Great Apostasy

  Athanasius, 85, 138, 139, 151, 156

  Book of Daniel, 163–64, 166, 186,

  187

  commencement date, 163–65,

  167–68, 387–88

  Revelation, 139, 139n, 143, 148, 161,

  162–63, 163–64, 166, 187, 387

  Gregory, David, 249n, 329, 355, 356,

  372

  Grongnet, Giorgio, 297, 298

  Grosso, Michael, 21, 22

  Hadrian, 90

  Halley, Edmund, 195, 237–40, 240n,

  242–43, 244

  on the Flood, 195, 233, 239, 243–44

  Great Comet of 1680, 242

  Halley’s comet, 218–19, 219n, 230,

  237, 242–43, 244

  Principia (Newton), 2, 9, 242, 243,

  245, 368, 370–71

  theology, 237–39, 243, 244

  Hartlib, Samuel, 309

  Hawking, Stephen, 2, 28–29, 205

  Heath, Thomas, 347

  Herodotus, 258, 290–91, 300

  Herzl, Theodor, 187–88, 189

  Hesiod, 279, 280, 345, 375

  Hipparchus, 276, 277, 278, 283, 287

  historian, Newton as, 43, 257, 258,

  263, 269–70, 276

  Hitler, Adolf, 23, 180, 190

  Hobbes, Thomas, 343, 365

  Homer, 268–69, 278, 279, 281,

  288–89, 315–16

  Hooke, Robert, 10, 240–41, 329,

  383

  Huygens, Christiaan, 193–94, 328,

  383, 383n

  Hypatia, 91

  idolatry/religious relics

  Anthony (saint), 119, 124, 126–27

  Athanasius, 85, 119, 124, 126–27

  Constantine, 72, 78, 79, 108–9, 150

  love/worship of God, 215, 360

  Trinitarianism, 48, 59, 139, 161,

  166–67, 182

  Iliffe, Rob, 60–61, 110, 113, 151,

  156–57, 160, 161, 359

  Ingermanson, Randall, 26

  Irenaeus, 33, 50, 69

  “Irenicum” (Newton), 76, 205

  Isacoff, Stuart, 357

  Islam, 16, 64, 159–60, 172, 173, 176,

  196, 197, 201, 202

  Israel, state of, 174, 175–76, 187–89,

  190, 192

  Jason and the Argonauts, 272–74,

  276, 283, 284, 285, 286

  Jeffries, George, 368, 369–70, 371,

  372, 374

  Jerusalem

  city of, 22, 28, 108, 109–10, 170,

  173, 173n, 174, 175, 180–81, 181n

  Temple Mount, 172–77

  Temple of, 20, 107, 131, 132–34,

  135, 136, 137–38, 140–41, 143,

  154, 172, 186–87, 191

  Jesus Christ

  astronomy, 276

  channeled texts, 62, 136–38, 143,

  146, 148, 149, 155, 160

  divine plan, 225, 226, 227

  music of the spheres, 284

  as nearly God, 60, 61–62

  scholarship, 46–47

  Second Coming, 15, 22, 27, 32,

  162–63, 175, 182, 183, 188, 189

  Jews

  Chronology (Newton), 131, 256,

  261, 263, 266, 267–68, 269

  conversion of, 154, 163, 172, 178,

  236

  Diaspora, 177, 179, 181, 182, 187,

  191, 207

  global chronology, 267–69

  Judaism, 64, 172, 180, 182, 187,

  196, 201, 205

  Messiah, 175, 181–82, 181–82n,

  181n, 183

  prisca sapientia, 267–68, 357

  return of the Jews, 162–63, 171,

  175, 177, 178–79, 180–81, 181n,

  184, 189–90, 191–92, 236

  Tabernacle, 130, 131–32, 133–34,

  135, 143–44, 145, 150, 236

  Torah, 21–22, 24, 25, 26, 32, 35,

  76, 134, 140, 150, 180, 187, 208,

  253, 261, 268

  John (apostle), 19–20

  John (bishop), 101–2, 104

  John of Patmos, 18–19, 20, 21, 26

  Johnson, Paul, 71, 95, 111, 198,

  268–69

  Josephus, 133–34, 197, 237, 326–27

  Jovian (emperor), 118

  Jowett, Benjamin, 302

  Judgment Day, 122, 152–53, 162–63,

  169, 170, 177, 179, 199, 220, 367n

  Julian the Apostate, 74, 115, 118

  Julian the Apostate (emperor of

  Rome), 173n

  Jung, Carl, 21–22, 361–63

  Jupiter (god), 191, 211, 216, 349

  Jupiter (planet), 217, 243, 248–49, 249n

  Justinian (emperor), 158, 159, 230–31n

  Kepler, Johannes, 2, 8, 241, 243, 352,

  363

  Keynes, John Maynard, 12–14, 312

  Kircher, Athanasius, 195, 266, 288

  Klein, Naomi, 17–18, 376

  Knoespel, Kenneth, 215, 217

  Küng, Hans, 57–58, 88

  Kurosawa, Akira, 67, 99, 101, 104, 105

  Lawrence, D. H., 21, 325–26

  Leibniz, Gottfried, 10, 329, 330, 383

  Leon, Rabbi Jacob Judah, 131, 132, 132n

  Lindsey, Hal, 175–76, 177

  literacy, 5, 19–20, 27, 28, 127–28, 268

  Locke, John, 44–45, 45n, 330–31

  alchemy, 309, 321–23

  Arianism, 60

  Blake on, 224

  corruptions of Scripture letters,

  44–46, 48–51, 56–58, 63–64, 140

  and Newton, 11, 45, 365, 366, 375

  prophetic books of Bible, 28

  on Whiston, 235

  London Mint, 10, 235, 245, 367, 375

  Lovelock, James, 317

  love our neighbors, 63, 161, 204, 372,

  386

  Lucasian Professor of Mathematics,

  8, 9, 303

  Luce, J. W., 293–94

  Luther, Martin, 22, 28, 156–57, 220

  Macarius, 83, 125

  MacCulloch, Diarmaid, 64, 71, 72,

  80, 95, 177–78

  Machiela, Daniel A., 208, 209

  Maclaurin, Colin, 355–56

  Mahasseh ben Israel, Rabbi, 179, 180

  Maltese archipelago, 288, 289,

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  Manuel, Frank

  on alchemy and Newton, 317–18

  on Apocalypse and Newton, 169–70

  on the divine plan and Newton, 37,

  381

  on Fatio and Newton, 367

  on Flamsteed and Newton, 222,

  222n

  on Newton as historian, 257, 258,

  263, 269–70

  on Newton and love/worship of

  God, 372

  Newton (father), 6

  “Paradoxical Questions” (Newton),

  76–77

  prisca sapientia and Newton, 359

  on prophetic hieroglyphs and

  Newton, 36

  on Solomon’s Temple, 130–31

  on synchronistical necessity, 38,

  41, 42

  on Whiston versus Newton, 234–35

  Marcellus, Marcus Claudius, 377–78

  Marvell, Andrew, 172, 177

  mathematics, 2, 9, 13, 37, 45, 185,

  193, 350, 351, 352–53, 361, 380

  McGuire, J. E., 330

  Mede, Joseph, 18, 37–38, 41–43, 156,

  167, 168, 184

  Melitians, 86, 88, 89, 92, 94, 95–96,

  97, 98, 101–2, 105–6, 110

  Melitius, 69, 86–88, 88n, 89, 101

  Merrill, James, 137

  Mersenne, Marin, 354, 355

  metaphysics, 75, 76

  Methuselah, 209, 305

  Mifsud, Anton, 298, 299–300

  millenarianism, 27–28, 152, 154, 169,

  177, 385

  Milton, John, 37, 231–32, 309

  More, Henry, 28, 30, 309, 321

  Morozov, Nicolai Aleksandrovich,

  251, 275n

  Moses (biblical figure)

  Bible code, 24, 153

  corruption of mankind, 368, 370–71

  God’s divine plan, 226–27n

  prisca sapientia, 267–68, 357–58, 359

  prophecies, 184

  Tabernacle, 130, 131, 133–34, 135

  Ten Commandments, 48, 62, 63, 205

  Torah, 24, 26

  music/music of the spheres, 284–85,

  327, 353–57, 388

  Needham, Joseph, 311, 314, 320–21

  Newman, William, 315–16, 317,

  323–24

  Newton, Humphrey, 314

  Newton, Isaac (father), 5, 6, 46

  Newton, Isaac, and biography, 1, 2,

  5–11, 30, 155, 364–67, 371–72,

  373–75

  Newton Code, 18, 26

  Newton Project, 4, 14, 16, 60, 359

  Noah (biblical figure), 208–9, 209n

  altar/eternal flame, 196, 202–4,

  202n, 203n

  Ark, 194–96, 199–202, 203

  children and gods, 211, 213n,

  216–17

  commandments, 204–5

  Flood, 3, 68, 194, 195, 196,

  197–99, 198n, 210, 232–33,

  233–34, 239, 243–44, 289

  immortality, 210–11, 210n, 217, 305

  Janus (god), 211, 214, 217

  love/worship of God, 204, 216

  polytheism, 211, 214, 216

  prisca sapientia, 203, 267, 326

  prytaneum, religion of, 77, 202,

  204–5, 214, 215

  “remnant,” 171, 194, 204, 208–10,

  264, 359–60, 361

  repopulation of world, 171, 195–97,

  210, 211, 214, 263–65

 

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