The complete online text of Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John by Isaac Newton.

Isaac Newton was one of the leading mathematical and scientific geniuses of the 17th and 18th centuries, best known for his far-reaching discoveries in mathematics, physics, and optics. Among Newton's many achievements was his invention of the calculus (...

Born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, Newton was a premature baby who was not expected to live. His father had died three months previous to the birth, and his mother remarried three years later, leaving Newton in the care of his grandparents. Newt...

Born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, Newton was a premature baby who was not expected to live. His father had died three months previous to the birth, and his mother remarried three years later, leaving Newton in the care of his grandparents. Newt...

In December 1595, a short pamphlet entitled A Most Strange and Wonderfull Prophesie upon this Troublesome World was published in London by a printer named Abel Jeffes. The work, allegedly authored in 1569 by two German astrologers, Dr. John Cypriano and Tarquatus Vandermers...

Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages. By Eugen Weber. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. 294 pp. n.p. Eugen Weber, a distinguished historian of modern Europe with a special interest in France, acknowledges in the introduction to this volume...