Jeff Jacoby on Isaac Newton

Maybe Jeff Jacoby thought we couldn’t tell who this was about from the very first sentence. I will point out that more than 3 centuries have passed since Newton’s appointment.

Jeff Jacoby: A teacher with faith and reason

DID YOU hear about the religious fundamentalist who wanted to teach physics at Cambridge University? This would-be instructor wasn’t simply a Christian; he was so preoccupied with biblical prophecy that he wrote a book titled “Observations on the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John.” Based on his reading of Daniel, in fact, he forecast the date of the Apocalypse: no earlier than 2060. He also calculated the year the world was created. When Genesis 1:1 says “In the beginning,” he determined, it means 3988 BC.