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# Newton, alchemy and a calculation from the Book of Daniel on a major event around 2060
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- Published: 2024-07-21T08:22:19.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:41:15.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Faith, Science, People

For more than 30 years Isaac Newton devoted himself to alchemical research, little known in his lifetime and little studied afterwards. Only in recent decades have scholars begun to pay serious attention to the manuscripts from his alchemical laboratory. The study of Newton's writings on alchemy and the obtaining of noble metals from base ones is greatly complicated, first of all, by the peculiar vocabulary and terminology that he introduced himself and nowhere set out. Yet alchemy was not the only thing that occupied his mind: for many years he immersed himself in biblical texts and made his own attempts to interpret the Bible's eschatological prophecies.

Journalists, for instance, often cite one of Newton's notes, from which it supposedly follows that the final end of the world will come in 2060\. In reality, however, Newton did not write quite that.

He proceeded from his own interpretation of the biblical Book of Daniel, according to which his calculations state that some significant event might occur, potentially understood as the beginning of the apocalypse or a fundamental shift in the world order, around 2060\. This calculation rests on Newton's religious convictions and his personal understanding of biblical texts and prophecies, not on scientific reasoning.

In Newton, scientific curiosity and the mystical interpretation of ancient knowledge lived side by side with deep religious feeling. He devoted a great deal of time to the study of theology and biblical texts. As for the year 2060, Newton expressed uncertainty, specifying that the event might occur later, but by no means earlier.

The end of the world as it is presented in modern culture, or as its instantaneous destruction in sacred fire, is not something Newton describes. He was closer, rather, to the vision of the evangelists. Christ will return to Earth and reign for a thousand years.