Isaac Newton's Temple of Solomon and his Reconstruction of Sacred Architecture [Paperback]

This book is about a side of Isaac Newtons character that has not been examined  Isaac Newton as architect as demonstrated by his reconstruction of Solomons Temple. Although it is well known that Isaac Newton worked on the Temple, and this is mentioned in most of his biographies and in articles on the religious aspects of this work, however, there is no research on Newtons architectural work. This book not only recreates Newtons reconstruction of the Temple but it also considers how his work on the Temple interlinks with his other interests of science, chronology, prophecy and theology. In addition the book contains the first translation of Introduction to the Lexicon of the Prophets, Part two: About the appearance of the Jewish Temple commonly known by its call name Babson 0434. This work will appeal not only to scholars of science and architectural history but also to scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries history of ideas.

This book recreates Isaac Newtons reconstruction of Solomons Temple. It ?shows Newton as an architect and how his work on the temple interlinks with his other interests of science, chronology, prophecy and theology.

In the 1680s Isaac Newton wrote the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. At the same time he was also working on a recreation of the plan of Solomons Temple. In an unpublished manuscript entitled Introduction to the Lexicon of the Prophets, Part two: About the appearance of the Jewish Temple, or more commonly known by its call name Babson MS 0424, he described the architecture of the Temple. His main source for his recreation was the Book of Ezekiel, but he also used and compared it with a wide selection of Jewish, Classical, and contemporary sources, and he demonstrated a good knowledge and understanding of Vitruvius in his search for the truth of Solomons Temple.The aim of this book is three-fold. First it contains a translation of Babson MS; this is the first translation of this mlSR