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Sir Isaac Newton (1643—1727), whose laws of motion and gravity set the stage for a revolutionary change in the way humans viewed the universe and their place in it, was a man of many talents and interest. History tends to view him as primarily a physicist, the inventor of “Newtonian physics,” but he was really so much more: he was also a mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist and theologian, refusing to recognize any boundaries on sources of knowledge. As a result Newton’s activities often strayed far away from the practice of pure science, as has been revealed by the discovery of a prediction he made that the world would come to an end in the year 2060. Interestingly, Newton didn’t