Despite all his warnings and resolutions to look only to the past, in the last years of his life, Isaac Newton could not resist the temptation to extend his gaze to the moment of the Last Judgment with this feeble justification: “I indicate this period of time, not with any wish to affirm with certainty when the end of the world will come, but simply because there is little reason to expect it sooner. (…)”. But perhaps his too will be considered in the same way a “rash conjecture”, since the date he predicted is approaching: between 2060 and 2374, depending on how one interprets prophecies, such as the destruction of Jerusalem or the beginning of the supremacy of the Popes.
