Sir isaac newton by v novakovski

Sir Isaac Newton His Life and not so Famous Research By Voitek A. Novakovski For

Enlightenment & Our Founding FathersGodfrey Kneller’s 1689 portrait of Isaac Newton (age 46)

The maternal family (Ayscough or Askew) was educated and felt Isaac should have at least a basic education, so he attended school during his mothers absence.3

When her 2nd husband died she returned to the family estate and removed Isaac from school so that he could manage the farm. Some confusion in the records at this point indicates he was between 12 and 17 years old.,[object Object]

[object Object],[object Object]

Trinity college at Cambridge University ,[object Object]

Often ignoring the required curriculum, and demeaned by his social status as an underclassmen, he preferred to stay in his room studying his passion of Biblical history and alchemy. On occasion he was even known to set his room on fire doing various experiments.3,7,[object Object]

At the age of 20 he had a religious epiphany and wrote out a list of his sins where he included “Threatening my father and mother Smith to burne them and the house over them”He had written a longer list later which he did in cipher lest it be found. 13In this list he included mostly sins of non-compliance with religious practice appropriate for those attending a religious college.6 ,[object Object],[object Object]

His journals take another turn as he begins to view Descartes, and Plato as attempting to remove God and spirit from the operation of nature . His studies lead him in the opposite direction and he sees these authors as enemies of Christianity.

He begins his lifelong passion of study in Biblical prophecies. His reading of Henry Moore adds to his evolving view of biblical writings and he adds a portion to his journal known as “Quaestiones” where he lists 45 general headings on the nature of matter, place and time. But the most significant of these , are: “Of God, Of the Creation, Of the Soule, and of Sleep and Dreams”,[object Object]

His most consequential theological belief was that only the Father was God in an absolute sense.Christ was not ”very God” according to Nicene formulation, but the Son of God, and more than man.4

In the biography of Sir Isaac Newton by Gleick2 the author states that it was Newton’s goal to “Plumb the mind of God and His eternal plan for the world and humankind as it was presented in the biblical prophecies”,[object Object]

He left Cambridge in 1665-1667 to escape the plague and work on “fluxions” (now called differential calculus). He calls the time as “the prime of my age for invention”It is during this time and the next 2-3 years that he prepares his premier piece which became known simply as the “Principia”

In the last few pages of this book, Newton describes his strong belief in an almighty God: “This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being”1,12,[object Object],[object Object]

Newton’s fascination with Biblical prophecy culminates in his publication of his manuscript on the apocalypse.

In this manuscript he attempts to show that the prophecies of the Old and New Testaments had so far been fulfilled.,[object Object],[object Object]

Sir isaac newton by v novakovski

Recomendados

Recomendados

Más contenido relacionado

La actualidad más candente

La actualidad más candente (20)

Similar a Sir isaac newton by v novakovski

Similar a Sir isaac newton by v novakovski (16)

Sir isaac newton by v novakovski