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Isaac Newton's notes on the pyramids and the Apocalypse have sold for $500,000, despite being badly damaged in a fire supposedly started by his dog

Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.Handwritten notes from Isaac Newton that are more than 300 years old have sold for £378,000 at an auction.He didn't publish texts on these during his life "because it would have cost him his career," auctioneer Sotheby's said.

The papers, from around the 1680s, had been almost completely destroyed by fire damage during the scientist's life,According to legend, Newton's dog Diamond jumped on his table and knocked a candle over, which set the papers alight. Because of the fire damage, some of the text at the edge was lost, but Sotheby's said the papers have been "expertly conserved.

 

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