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Israeli library uploads Newton's theological texts

Quick ReadIsraeli national library digitizes Sir Isaac Newton's theological writings, puts it online

Engraving of Isaac Newton based on a 1726

Photo credit: AP Photo | Engraving of Isaac Newton based on a 1726 painting by John Vanderbank that was from the frontispiece of a 1726 editiion of Principia, on display on Friday, Oct.8, 2004, at the New York Public Library's Humanities and Social Sciences Library.

He's considered to be one of the greatest scientists of all time. But Sir Isaac Newton was also an influential theologian who applied a scientific approach to the study of scripture, Hebrew and Jewish mysticism.

Now Israel's national library, an unlikely owner of a vast trove of Newton's writings, has digitized his theological collection -- some 7,500 pages in Newton's own handwriting -- and...

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