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Thursday, December 10, 2020

Isaac Newton Thought the Great Pyramid Held the Key to the Apocalypse [Smithsonian Magazine, 8 December 2020]

Title:
Isaac Newton Thought the Great Pyramid Held the Key to the Apocalypse
 
Author:
Livia Gershon
 
Published:
Smithsonian Magazine, 8 December 2020
 
From the article:
Messages about a coming apocalypse that could be decoded through architectural measurements? Keys to secrets of the Bible found in Egypt’s Great Pyramid? These might seem like nonsensical notions far from the world of science. But for Isaac Newton, they were veritable obsessions detailed in three pages of notes sold by Sotheby’s this morning for £378,000 (around $504,700 USD).