• Question: hi all, what do you think the papers that Isaac newton burned near his time of death could have held? The date of Armageddon? Time travel?

    Asked by anon-244318 to Ondrej, Jordan, Eleanor, Ed, Christine, Alice on 18 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Edward Banks

      Edward Banks answered on 18 Mar 2020:

      Given how many papers he left behind (lots), and how many of them were focused on strange things like alchemy (also lots), I don’t think it would have been anything esoteric. Nor can I imagine it was some great mathematical revelation he wanted to keep to himself- he was petty but hopefully not that petty!
      Boring answer but they were most likely unimportant, unfinished or incorrect works.

    • Photo: Eleanor Jones

      Eleanor Jones answered on 18 Mar 2020:

      I didn’t know that this had happened! How interesting!

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