Some of Sir Isaac Newton s unpublished notes, including his discussion of the apocalypse, have sold at auction, for a whopping sum.
The notes, which sold for $503,000 (378,000 British pounds) on Dec. 9 after reaching the reserve requirement for the listing, date back to the 1680s. They discuss a myriad of topics, including ancient units of measurement and the Great Pyramid of Egypt, which he theorized could lead him to a knowledge of the timing of the Apocalypse, auction house Sotheby s wrote on its website.
(Credit: Soethby s) The private papers reveal a side of the scientist that was kept quiet until centuries after his death, his fascination for alchemy, the auction house said in an email to FOX Business.