Thursday, February 16, 2012

Isaac Newton and ancient Judaism

ISAAC NEWTON had other interests besides calculus and gravity: Israeli library uploads Newton's theological texts (AP).

Some of this material sounds like it would be useful for the history-of-interpretation unit of my honours course on the Book of Daniel

UPDATE: Reader Leor Jacobi sends links to two relevant articles by José Faur in pdf format: Newton, Maimonidean and Esoteric Knowledge and the Vulgar: Parallels between Newton and Maimonides.