View Catalog: THEM00287
Catalog Name | THEM00287 | |
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Document | Yahuda Ms. 17.2 | |
Title | Notes and drafts relating to 'Theologiae Gentilis Origines Philosophicae' | |
Subtitle | Notes on ancient physico-theology | |
Author | Isaac Newton | |
Place of Origin | England | |
Origin Date | 1680s and early 1690s | |
Repository | National Library of Israel (Jerusalem) | |
Pages | ||
Wordcount | 35,000 | |
Language | Latin;Greek;English;Hebrew; |
Contents
Notes
Exceptionally chaotic and heavily reworked Latin notes on the theology of various pre-Christian societies, principally the Jews, Egyptians, Greeks and Chaldaeans. For the most part, the notes do not appear to be in a sequential order and it is possible that many pages have come adrift from other portions of the archive. As with many of Newton's writings on this topic, the principal goal appears to be to establish connections between divine or mythical characters in different belief systems: for instance, he argues that the Jewish Noah, the Egyptian Thoth and the Greek Zeus are variant extrapolations of the same historical figure.
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