Israel's national library, who owns a great number of Newton's original writings, has digitalized some 7,500 of Newton's theological text in his own handwriting.

Among ones digitalized and made available online is Newton's controversal prediction of the apocalypse in 2060. Newton based his calculation on the end of days on information gleaned from the Book of Daniel, which projected the apocalypse 1,260 years later. Newton figured that this count began from the crowning of Charlemagne as Roman emperor in the year 800.

Newton greatly impacted the realms of physics, mathematics and astronomy in the 17th century with his principles of univeral gravitation and three laws of motion.  He is also known for having great interest in theology and calculating the end of days.

The curator of Israel's national library's humanities collection said that Newton believed that the scripture provides a code to the natural world.

"Today, we tend to make a distinction between science and faith, but to Newton it was all part of the same world," said Milka Levy-Rubin. "He believed that careful study of holy texts was a type of science, that if analyzed correctly could predict what was to come."

The collection also contains maps that Newton sketched to assist him in his calculations and his attempts to reveal the secret knowledge he believed was encrypted within, including what the end of days would look like and the roles which Jews would play at the time.  Levy-Rubin believes that these manuscripts help us better understand Newton's persona and science.

"As far as Newton was concerned, his approach was that history was as much a science as physics. His world view was that his 'lab' for understanding history was the holy books," said Levy-Rubin. "His faith was no less important to him than his science."

Newton's theological works not accepted by the University of Cambridge after his death. Abraham Shalom Yahuda later received the manuscripts in an auction by Newton's descendants at Sotheby's in London in 1936 and bequethed them to Israel's national library after his death.

The manuscripts are viewable online at: https://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/collections/Humanities/Pages/newton.aspx