It is said that Newton found a black box about him after his death, which was full of shady things. What's inside?

1727 On March 20th, the great scientist Newton passed away. When he died at the age of 84, two dukes, three earl and the Chief Justice carried the coffin for him. Voltaire described it this way: "He was buried like a king loved by his subjects. No scientist before him had enjoyed such an honor. After him, there are only a handful of people who are so buried. " Shortly after Newton's death, Alexander Bob, a great poet in the18th century, summed up the world's evaluation of Newton: nature and its laws are hidden in darkness, and the Lord said, let mankind have Newton! So everything was lit up by the light. This poem is still engraved on Newton's epitaph.

From the18th century, Newton began to be regarded as the greatest man in the modern scientist era, a rationalist and a person who taught us to think in a calm and pure rational way. Newton's name has always been synonymous with science.

However, Newton's real face is not exactly like the picture we are used to imagining in our minds. Of course, this does not mean that he is not great. As the famous economist Keynes said: "Please don't guess here that my purpose today is to derogate from Cambridge's greatest son through description. I try to treat him as his own friends and contemporaries treat him. They all think that he is one of the greatest figures without exception. "

Everything comes from a mysterious box-Newton's "black box". In this big box, there is evidence that once occupied and completely attracted his passionate and intelligent heart.

He didn't destroy them when he left Cambridge, but kept them in that box. It deeply shocked any pair of eyes in 18 or 19 century, and even the exploration of modern people, including millions of words of his unpublished works. These are all secrets that Newton has been trying to hide all his life.

The secret died with him, and after his death, someone tried to understand the long-buried secret. Bishop horsley was ordered to check the box, hoping to publish the voluminous works inside, but after reading the contents of the box, he suddenly shut it in panic. 100 years later, David Brewster looked at the box again, but he chose to extract it carefully and completely covered up all the clues with a few serious little lies.

Because of the huge volume of 654.38+00000 words in the box, it is almost meaningless to our reality and science. Except as an attractive aspect of our exploration of the greatest genius of mankind.

Newton devoted himself to studying the variability of elixir and the process of transforming basic metals into gold. Just like the words put in Newton's mouth by playwright George Bernard Shaw in his play "In the Golden Age of Good King Charlie", the playwright expresses Newton's heart through the role: "There are so many more important things to do: the transformation of matter, the elixir of life, the magic of light and color, and the overriding thing is the hidden meaning in the Bible. When I was absorbed in these things, I found myself distracted and entered a series of endless idle games of meditation, dividing the arc into inseparable short triangular sides. How stupid! What a waste of time, priceless time! "

Another major part of his secret works is the secret truth of the universe he speculated and sought-the power of Solomon's temple, revelation, Daniel and hundreds of pages of books on the history of the church.

The literature also shows Newton's obsession with alchemy. In the era around 1650, people centered on the publisher Cooper rekindled their interest in15th century English alchemy in the following 20 years.

There are quite a few such manuscripts in the Cambridge library, and Newton was addicted to them during those 20 years. This is just a few years after he conceived this principle. He devoted himself to trying to interpret the mystery left by tradition, leaving at least 65,438+10,000 words of experimental records and manuscripts.

In these peculiar studies-Newton had one foot in the Middle Ages and the other foot opened the way for modern science-he spent the first stage of his life in Trinity College.

Looking at his research at that time, everyone will think that Newton was not the first person in the rational age, but the last magician. His nature is mysterious, secretive and extremely neurotic. His successor Winston described him as "one of the most terrible, cautious and suspicious people I know." So he completely alienated women and never got married.

Newton abandoned orthodoxy at Trinity College in his early years. He completely opposed the interpretation of ancient authorities and thought that the theory of "Trinity" should be forged later. To this end, he also wrote a large number of anti-Trinity pamphlets. His holding of this heresy further aggravated his silence and introversion.