Nostradamus, 192, 299, 299n
Numa Pompilius, 342–45
Observations . . . (Newton), 18,
23–24, 126, 132–33, 148, 169
“Of Motion” (Newton), 241
Ogygia/Gozo island, 288–89, 296,
297, 298, 299–300
Ogygia island, 289, 294–95
On the Church (Newton), 61–62
Oppenheimer, Robert, 384
optical research, 221, 240, 318,
323–24, 328, 373
Optics (Newton), 2–3, 330, 381–82
Optics/Opticks (Newton), 228n
Origen Adamantius, 50, 100, 100n,
154, 326–27
Oughted, William, 178
ὁμοούσιος (“consubstantial,” “of one
substance”), 75–77, 398–401
Pagels, Elaine, 20, 128, 129, 139n
Paine, Harrington Spear, 20
Palestine/Palestinians, 12, 28, 34,
87–88, 174–75, 187, 188,
189–90, 191–92
papacy, 22–23, 28, 52–53, 54, 154,
163, 164, 165–67, 187, 219, 219n,
262, 308, 369
“Paradoxical Questions concerning
the Morals and Actions of
Athanasius and His Followers”
(Newton), 12, 63, 65–70, 84,
148, 149–50
Anthony (saint), 70, 120, 121–28,
129
Arius’s mythical death, 77, 79–81,
83, 113, 114, 119
celibacy, 123, 125
corruptions of Scripture, 69, 76–77
Council of Tyre, 97–106, 109–10,
111–12, 113, 114, 119, 258
forged letters by Athanasius, 93,
105–6, 111–12, 113–14, 119
Gibbon on, 115
idolatry/religious relics, 124,
126–27
Manuel on, 76–77
rituals, 125–26
severed hand myth, 85, 101–2, 104,
111, 114
supernatural experiences, 122,
124–26
Westfall on, 66
Parliament, 179–80, 245–46, 307–8,
371–72, 374
Paul (monk), 125
Pauli, Wolfgang, 184, 350, 361–63
Pepys, Samuel, 309, 365–66, 375
Pericles, 336–37, 338–42, 341n
Peter (apostle), 72, 153–54
Peter of Alexandria, 86–88, 88n, 148
Philolaus, 345, 346–48, 349, 352
Philostorgius, 101
Phineus, 31n
physics, 2, 9, 13, 37, 45, 193, 230,
234, 349, 358, 361, 362–63
Pierce, Larry, 257, 292
Plato, 337, 341n
Atlantis, 290, 292, 293, 294,
295–96, 298, 299, 302
cycles concept, 205
Eudoxus on, 280
gravity, 328
Newton on, 8
Philolaus, 346, 347
science and corruption, 378–79
writings, 205, 205 292, 290, 292,
299, 302
Plutarch
altar/eternal flame, 202n
Archimedes, 378, 378n, 379, 380
Aspasia, 339
Cleanthes, 335n
Marcus Claudius Marcellus, 377
Numa, 343, 344–45
Pericles, 340–41, 341n
Pythagoras, 350
Solon, 290
Pope, Alexander, 1
Principe, Lawrence, 315–16, 317, 322
Principia Mathematica (Newton),
1–3, 7, 9–10, 44, 45, 71, 136, 366
alchemy, 319, 363
atheism, 381
comets, 222–23, 224–25, 242,
244–45, 246–49
gravity, 193, 243
guilt over writing, 370–71, 372,
373, 374, 375, 381
Halley, 2, 9, 242, 243, 245, 368,
370–71
prisca sapientia, 328, 329
proof of existence of God in,
59–60, 382–83
prisca sapientia, 326, 326n, 336
alchemy, 316–17
Anaxagoras, 337–41
ancient science, 358n, 359
Aristarchus, 330, 331–35
consciousness, state of, 331, 344
corruption of mankind, 359–60,
361
Jews, 267–68
Moses, 267–68, 357–58, 359
Newton on, 327–28, 329–31
Noah, 203, 267, 326
Numa, 342–45
Pauli, 362–63
Philolaus, 345
Pythagoras, 345, 352, 356, 357,
358–59, 363
prophetic books of Bible, 42–43
prophetic hieroglyphs, 31, 321,
390–91
astronomy, 317
Bible, 18, 23, 25, 28–38
central fire, 349
Charlemagne, 166–67
Constantine, 76
Daniel, Book of, 33–37, 144, 163–64
Great Comet of 1680, 222
law of parsimony, 259
Revelation, 33–37, 143–44, 146,
148, 149–50, 155–61
Protestantism, 22, 28, 156–57, 328,
367, 369
prytaneum, religion of, 77, 202,
204–5, 214, 215–16, 344, 388
Pythagoras/Pythagoreans, 350–52
Brahmins, 284
celestial bodies, 348, 354
central fire, 347, 348–49
corruption of mankind, 368,
370–71
Druids, 284
Ezekiel (prophet), 185, 185n
global chronology, 267
gravity, 325, 328, 350, 354
mathematics, 185, 350, 351, 352, 380
music/music of the spheres,
284–85, 327, 353, 355, 388
Newton on, 349, 363, 380
orbital velocities, 354
Philolaus, 346, 347
prisca sapientia, 345, 352, 356, 357,
358–59
silence teachings, 343
Theano, 351, 351n
“Queries Regarding the Word
ὁμοούσιος” (Newton), 75–76,
398–401
Rattansi, Piyo, 330, 360–61
Reé, Jonathan, 270
“remnant,” 171, 194, 204, 207,
208–10, 233, 264, 296, 359–60,
361
Rips, Eliyahu, 24–25
Royal Society of London, 9, 10, 132n,
233, 236, 239, 240n, 241–42,
243, 245, 246
Rudbeck, Olas, 195–96
Sachar, Abram, 130
Saturn (god), 194, 197, 198n, 211,
212–13, 214, 216, 217, 295–96,
300, 315
Saturn (planet), 193–94, 217, 243,
328, 331
science
ancient science, 358–61, 358n, 410–11
corruption and, 378–79
technological innovations, 12, 24,
215, 255, 273, 300, 372, 375–79,
385–86
Servetus, Miguel, 55–56
Severus, Septimus (emperor), 28, 145,
146, 147
“Short Schem of the True Religion, A”
(Newton), 382
Sittenreich, Steven, 185–86n
Snobelen, Stephen, 9, 15–16, 48,
50–51, 58, 167, 169, 181, 192
Socrates, 43, 127, 337, 339, 341n, 342
Solomon (biblical figure), 272, 287
Temple of, 131–33, 134–36, 148,
166, 172–73, 236, 261, 263
Solon, 290–91, 292
Atlantis, 290, 291–92, 293–94, 302
global chronology, 267, 293
Sozomen, 43, 70, 108, 109, 116, 127
Starkey, George, 318–19
Stukeley, William, 7n, 261
Sturm, Johann Christoph, 365
surrealist image
s, 20–21, 33, 68, 80,
85, 99, 101, 102–3, 104, 147
Swift, Jonathan, 246, 247–48
“Synchronisms . . . ” (Newton), 153
System of the World, The (Newton),
329, 410–11
Tabernacle, 130, 131–32, 133–34,
135, 143–44, 145, 150, 236
Tertullian, 28, 33, 50, 69
Theano, 351, 351n
Theodoret, 43, 99–101, 103–4, 110
Theodosius (emperor), 119, 157
“Theologiae Gentiles Origines
Philosophicae” (Newton), 216, 263
theological writings of Newton
(“History of the corruption of
the Soul of Man”), 3–5, 11–13,
12n, 14, 18, 66, 312, 368
Thompson, William Irwin, 317, 364
Thucydides, 275, 340
Timotheus, 100–101
Titans, 47, 193–94, 350
Tolstoy, Leo, 48n, 374
Torah, 21–22, 24, 25, 26, 32, 35, 76,
134, 140, 150, 180, 187, 208,
253, 261, 268
Trinitarianism
Apocalypse in 2060, 169, 387–88
Athanasius, 22, 55, 60–61, 63, 65,
69, 70–71, 75, 83, 94, 117–18,
138, 156
corruptions of Scripture, 58
councils, 70–71, 74–75, 118–19, 139
Cromwell, 47–48
idolatry/religious relics, 48, 59, 139,
161, 166–67, 182
Trump, Donald, 17, 20
“Two Incomplete Treatises on
Prophecy” (Newton), 76
“Untitled Treatise on Revelation”
(Newton), 138n, 156n, 157, 402
vegetative spirit, 304–5, 307, 324
Velikovsky, Immanuel, 226, 226–27n,
234n
Vidal, Gore, 115
Vilenkin, Alex, 352–53
Vincenzo Galilei, 354–55
Voltaire, 2, 13, 31, 56, 58, 90, 240,
261–62, 266
warfare, 149, 159, 175, 271, 372, 376,
377–79
Westfall, Richard
on the character of Newton, 371
Chronology (Newton), 253
corruptions of Scripture and
Newton, 49, 56
illness and Newton, 365
London Mint and Newton, 367
monasticism and Newton, 122–23
on Newton as historian, 43
“Paradoxical Questions” (Newton),
66
patristic literature and Newton, 69
polytheism and Noah, 211
Principia (Newton), 242
prophecy and Newton, 33
“remnant” and Newton, 207
supernatural experiences and
Newton, 122
theological writings of Newton, 14
Whiston, William, 227–29, 228, 229,
237
Arianism, 236
day-equals-year formula, 185
divine plan, 228, 229, 230–31,
230–31n, 238
earthquakes, 237, 249
Great Comet of 1680, 230,
230–31n, 232, 233, 234n, 235
Jews, 236
on Newton, 6, 29, 192, 224,
227–29, 235, 238, 379
Revelation, 30–31
as scientist-theologian, 60, 131,
185, 192, 229–30, 229–31, 230n,
232–37, 359
Tabernacle, 131, 236
Temples, 131, 236
writings of, 185, 229–30, 232,
234–35, 236, 237
White, Michael, 324
Whitehead, Alfred North, 360
Wickins, William, 379
Willet, Andrew, 265–66
Wren, Christopher, 240–41
Yahuda, Abraham, 12, 13–14, 180,
256
Zeus (god), 31, 31n, 211, 212, 278,
279, 280, 282, 333–34, 335, 345,
348, 349
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