He predicted the end would be marked by plagues and war, as he wrote in the 1704 letter: “And the days of short lived Beasts being put for the years of lived [sic] kingdoms, the period of 1260 days, if dated from the complete conquest of the three kings AC 800, will end AC 2060.”.
Professor Stephen Snobelen, from the history of science and technology department at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said Sir Isaac was “wary of prophetic date-setting” and “worried that the failure of fallible human predictions based on divine prophecy would bring the Bible into disrepute”.
Renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton predicted when the world would end in a letter dating back more than 300 years ago.
“This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail.”.
A letter from the famous mathematician and physicist - who was best known for formulating the laws of gravity - revealed he believed the world would end in 2060, as he scrawled the warning above a series of mathematical calculations in 1704.
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