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- 1. SIR ISAAC NEWTON’S DARK SECRET
- 2. Early life of Isaac newton • He was born in 1642 25 December in England • His father died before he was born • His mother remarried when newton was 3 years old • He studied in Cambridge university • Wiccans John Wiccans and newton were roommates
- 3. Discovering gravity • it was widely accepted by this time that the planets orbit the Sun • Newton refused the idea that the orbits of planets work as a giant machine. • Plague struck England, and thousands died every week.
- 4. Optics • From 1670 to 1672 he lectured in optics • Investigated the refraction of light • Discovered that light has a spectrum of colors • He build the first refraction telescope instead of using lenses. • He invented the Newtonian telescope
- 5. Introduction • Personal papers of sir Isaac newton put up for auction in Sotheby’s in London. • Most of them were bought by the economist John Maynard Keynes. • These papers reveal the real sir Isaac newton
- 6. Becoming an alchemist ■ He bought two furnaces and assortment of chemicals and a strange set of books. ■ Alchemy is an ancient and secret practice with roots in the middle east by doing chemical procedures ■ He believed that in the distant past, people know great truth about nature and universe ■ this wisdom was lost over time but Newton thought it was hidden in Greek myths which he interpreted as encoded alchemical recipes ■ He used a very colorful language that's typical of the alchemy of the time .
- 7. The net recipe ■ It comes from the writings of the Roman poet Ovid ■ He used natural ingredients to transform the myth into real alchemical recipe. ■ Mixing these ingredients, he obtained a purple alloy called the net. Believed to be one step towards the Philosopher's Stone. ■ The experiment was repeated in our era and they had obtained the same result that newton got 300 years ago.
- 8. Alchemy a real matter theory ■ alchemy was a science which pursued the most basic questions of what is the earth what is all of the universe made up of. ■ it was a profound element to the practice of alchemy which really makes it deserving of being called early modern chemistry. ■ Changing material matters
- 9. Newton the dark heretic ■ Some manuscripts housed in Jerusalem reveal the real Isaac Newton. ■ he was required to become a minister in the Church of England. ■ the Father Son and Holy Ghost from Newton's point of view is a heresy. ■ Newton begins to minimize to play down eventually to deny the divinity of Christ ■ Newton was eventually excused from becoming a minister
- 10. Newton’s anticipation ■ For Newton religion and science were inseparable. ■ Newton examined more than 30 bibles. ■ He related ancient history drawing up elaborate charts and chronologies that show civilization starting around 980 BC. ■ Newton also combed the Bible for keys to the future. ■ He determined when the end would come, and it’s in 2060.
- 11. Newton’s foes ■ Robert Hook and others attacked Newton because he didn’t explain what gravity is. ■ some thinks Newton's idea of gravity was related to the occult practice of alchemy. ■ Newton was fascinated by an alchemical process called the vegetation of metals. ■ Newton thought these kinds of reactions showed mysterious invisible forces, he called active principles. ■ Newton pursued alchemy because it gave insight into the active principles of nature. ■ Newton believed that gravity was one of those forces.
- 12. Newton’s failure ■ After more than twenty years of research Newton's alchemical experiments had yielded no scientific breakthroughs like those he'd made in math and physics. ■ he was disappointed because he was looking for ultimate answers to questions and he had failed in alchemy as he had not failed in any other pursuit. ■ Newton had a nervous breakdown, he made wild accusations against his few friends. ■ Newton explained that he was sick and had gone without sleep for five nights his friends forgave him.
- 13. Conclusion ■ although he had given up alchemy he continued to devote himself to theology right up to his death. ■ Newton died in 1727, he was 84 years old he was buried among kings and queens in Westminster Abbey. ■ achievements his alchemy and passionate but heretical religious beliefs virtually unknown. ■ Now two and a half centuries later a new picture of Sir Isaac Newton is emerging ■ Who knows later what we could also reveal like secret of life that may help to discover how to understand the creation of space or any other deep secrets of life?
Editor's Notes
- 1 In a small farm in rural England called woolsthorpe, the conflicted life of Isaac newton began in 1642. that same year the astronomer Galileo had died and his work was still sending shockwaves through Europe. Galileo had risked his freedom by challenging the ancient belief held by the Catholic Church that the Sun moved around the earth. Based not on faith but observation he confirmed the earth was just one of several planets orbiting the Sun. when he was just three years old his mother remarried and moved away leaving young Isaac behind with his grandparents. Newton later confessed to such rage that he wanted to burn his mother and stepfather in their house and by the time he left home for Cambridge University. Newton had lived through two decades of violent political and social turmoil :the bloody civil war the beheading of the king and the restoration of the monarchy under charles ii in 1660. At Cambridge Newton buried himself in his studies. he stayed in his rooms he worked seven days a week 18 hours a day he had a library of his own that had about 1600 or 1800 volume. Wiccans John Wiccans and newton were roommates ,They grew unhappy living with students who put pleasure before work.
- but now the question was how did the planets move what held them in their orbits ?the most popular theory came from the French philosopher Rene Descartes ,who thought of the universe as a giant machine like a clock. Descartes said everything even the orbits of planets could be explained simply as the physical interactions of parts of this machine. but Newton had trouble accepting this view of nature. Plague struck England, and thousands died every week. The university closed a Newton returned home to avoid infection and it was here, that the legend of Isaac Newton was born. The story was instead of thinking about girls he was thinking about moon and how it goes around the earth and so on. And an Apple falls and he suddenly has the idea that the same thing that's making the Apple falls is what's holding the moon in its orbit It’s an invisible force called gravity and not physical mechanical like Descartes said.
- his curiosity took him to reveal the fact of how colors are produced So he performed an experience on himself with a large needle and he put it between his eye and the bone and he started pressing and there appeared white dark and colored. circle but then he found a safer way to investigate light in color using a prism. From Aristotle to Descartes scientists thought sunlight or white light was pure. Colors were produced physically by modifying white light by passing it through a prism. So sending sunlight through a prism it produces the spectrum of colors and then he went one step further . He sent the red ray through a second prism but it remained red . So he conclude that the white light is a combination of all the colors of the rainbow. the prism worked as a separator. He build the first refraction telescope instead of using lenses. Newton realized that the edge of a lens behave like a prism breaking white light into different colors as it passes through. So he abandoned lenses and substituted them with a mirror to focus light Newton’s telescope was 6 inch long
- 1) In 1936 a huge collection of scientific documents and personal papers was put up for auction at Sotheby's in London, these papers have never been seen by the public and a large number of them were bought by the famous British economist John Maynard Keynes and many were written in secret code and for six years keynes struggled to decipher them. he hoped they would reveal the private thoughts of newton 3) on the one hand we can recognize him as a scientist but on the other hand he's pursuing an activity which we now label as a pseudoscience now scientists and historians are trying to reconcile the Isaac Newton we will see later the dark secret of Isaac newton
- His private book reveal that in the same year he became a professor at Cambridge. He bought two furnaces and assortment of chemicals and a strange set of books,newton had become an alchemist. Alchemy is an ancient and secret practice with roots in the middle east by doing chemical procedures. Alchemists tried to produce a magical substance called philosopher stone . It was so potent that even a small quantity was said to perform miracles, curring ailments, conferring immortality, and transforming ordinary metals into pure gold. He believed that in the distant past, people know great truth about nature and universe. In some instances he interprets the myths in a very very exact way so that they correspond to actual recipes but getting these recipes right is no easy matter. He used a very colorful language that's typical of the alchemy of the time. The Green Lion and it is a popular alchemical symbol. On a chemical level this is a metaphor for when a green, liquid sulfate called “vitriol” purifies matter, leaving behind the gold within the matter. Very pure vitriol is an acid that eats through practically anything, except gold.
- in his poem the metamorphosis Ovid tells the story of the guard volcán catching his wife Venus in bed with the god Mars. in alchemy Venus Mars and Vulcan mean copper iron and fire.
- 2)He’s not a madman playing around with strange spirited substances, Newton was trying to actually figure out how to change material particles around to get one thing out of something else. And that’s not so weird. Newton’s alchemy came as a surprise when it was discovered in the papers by the economist John Maynard.
- but other manuscripts now housed in Jerusalem contained an even greater surprise. for most of his life Newton held a dangerous secret. as a fellow at Trinity College he was required to become a minister in the Church of England. but this was something he violently opposed. Newton became convinced, that the central doctrine of Christianity: the Trinity, or the idea that Father Son and Holy Spirit were all equally divine, was not true. the more ancient Christian texts he read the more he believed Christ was the son of God, but not God's equal . Newton was so convinced that God is extremely powerful and unique. Newton comes the conclusion very early on that the Trinity is a blasphemy on the first commandment, because the first commandment says that thou shalt have no other gods before me. but denying the Trinity was illegal and Newton was risking everything by holding these beliefs.
- 3)HE had hundreds and hundreds of pages of computations and working where he tried to probe this over a period of close to 30 years, time and time again he'll come back to it trying to make it work just the way he tried to make his theories of light work. With the same fervor that he brought to science and math; Newton also combed the Bible for keys to the future. what he was trying to do is determine when the end would come, when price would return, when all the apocalyptic events of the end times would come to a head. and that date is now alarmingly close the Year 2060.
- 1)HE just shows how to calculate its strength. Newton himself didn't understand it how can this object attract his object there's nothing in between them. Some think Newton's idea of gravity was related to the occult practice of alchemy. Newton was fascinated by an alchemical process called the vegetation of metals in which inert metal seemed to come to life and grow like plants today we know this is just the reaction of mercury and silver with a solution of nitric acid but Newton thought these kinds of reactions showed that mysterious invisible forces he called active principles or at work everywhere in nature perhaps he thought of the invisible force of gravity in the same way. Newton pursued alchemy because it gave insight into the active principles of nature. Gravity was an occult force it didn't have an explanation and Newton believed that it was possible that gravity was one of those forces one of those active principles and so in that sense Newton's alchemy could give insight into gravity.
- yet by the early 1690s after more than twenty years of research Newton's alchemical experiments had yielded no scientific breakthroughs like those he'd made in math and physics. he was disappointed because he was looking for ultimate answers to questions and he had failed in alchemy as he had not failed in any other pursuit. Newton had what many think was a nervous breakdown he made wild accusations against his few friends charging one the philosopher john locke with trying to embroil him with women. Newton explained that he was sick and had gone without sleep for five nights his friends forgave him. he was knackered. it was probably because of exhaustion .whatever the cause Newton's illness was brief. within a few months he seemed to have regained his composure
- although he had given up alchemy he continued to devote himself to theology right up to his death he tried to keep his heresy as secret as possible and he thinks there's no point trying to convince these people of what he is doing because the time is not right these people aren't fit to receive the kind of word that I'm giving out Newton died in 1727 he was 84 years old he was buried among kings and queens in Westminster Abbey beneath a monument to his scientific achievements his alchemy and passionate but heretical religious beliefs virtually unknown now two and a half centuries later a new picture of Sir Isaac Newton is emerging along with a new understanding of the roles that science religion and alchemy played in his life.