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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,
&nb
sp; 296–99, 302
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