Just watched this excellent documentary.

Instead of 'flowery' prose - just short cryptic highlights presented by me.

RENT IT - WATCH IT - LEARN !!!

NEWTON’S DARK SECRETS

Review of Documentary

© - Tom Hyland - 3-18-10


A ‘NOVA’ PRODUCTION FROM 2005.

SIR ISAAC NEWTON - 1642 - 1727

OXFORD - TRINITY COLLEGE - CAMBRIDGE

APPLE - GRAVITY

MATH - INVENTED CALCULUS

LIGHT - PRISM EXPERIMENTS

RE-DESIGNED GALILEO’S TELESCOPE
USING MIRRORS INSTEAD OF LENSES,
THUS REMOVING CHROMATIC AURAS

PREMATURE WHITE HAIR IN HIS TWENTIES.

ALCHEMIST - ‘THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE’
BELIEVED CODED NOTES FROM GREEK MYTHS
WERE ACTUALLY CHEMICAL RECIPES.

OCCULT ALCHEMY = MATTER THEORY
FORERUNNER OF MODERN CHEMISTRY

INVITED TO JOIN ROYAL SOCIETY -
YOUNGEST MEMBER EVER!

ROBERT HOOK - NEMESIS -
DISCLAIMED HIS PAPER ON LIGHT

HOLY TRINITY - NOT EQUAL!
CHRIST SON OF GOD, BUT NOT EQUAL!
BELIEVED ‘THIS’ WAS ‘HERESY’ AGAINST
THE FIRST COMMANDMENT!

WROTE MORE ABOUT RELIGION AND ALCHEMY
THAN MATH AND SCIENCE

BELIEVED STRONGLY IN GOD
OWNED MORE THAN THIRTY BIBLES

PREDICTED APOCALYPSE IN 2060 !

EDMUND HALLEY VISITED HIM WHEN HE WAS FORTY
NEWTON CALCULATED ELIPSES AS PLANET ORBITS,
USING FORMULA IN EUCLIDIAN GEOMETRY

WROTE FIVE HUNDRED PAGE WORK
ON PHYSICS - ‘PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA’

BOTH TERRESTIAL AND CELESTIAL MOTION
ARE THE SAME

CANNONBALL AND GRAVITY

EVERY ACTION THERE IS EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION

ACTIVE PRINCIPLES OF NATURE

BRIEF NERVOUS BREAKDOWN FROM EXHAUSTION

AFTERWARDS MOVED TO LONDON
APPOINTED ‘MASTER OF THE MINT’
ISSUING NEW CURRENCY AND
CRACKING DOWN ON FORGERS

BECAME MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
PRESIDENT OF ROYAL SOCIETY
WAS KNIGHTED - ‘SIR ISAAC NEWTON’

COMMISSIONED FOURTEEN PORTRAITS
OF HIMSELF

SECOND GREAT PAPER PUBLISHED
‘OPTICKS’ - EXPANDED ON HIS WORK WITH LIGHT
AT END OF BOOK, WROTE UP HIS IDEAS
ON CALCULUS - FORTY YEARS AFTER CONCEPTION

DIED AT AGE EIGHTY-FOUR
BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY
AMONG KINGS AND QUEENS

PASSIONATE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
‘HERESY’ TO SOME - VIRTUALLY UNKNOWN.

NOW, TWO AND A HALF CENTURIES LATER,
A NEW PICTURE OF HIM IS JUST EMERGING.

MORE AND MORE OF HIS WRITINGS
ON RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND ALCHEMY
ARE NOW BEING REVIEWED.


*** MY RATING = 10! ***

© - TKH.