Death of Isaac Newton

March 31, 1727

Eighty-four, unmarried, Master of the Mint, and universally revered, Newton died in Kensington. He was buried in Westminster Abbey like a king. Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night, wrote Pope. God said, Let Newton be, and all was light. The Enlightenment had its saint. His unpublished manuscripts, discovered later, revealed a man equally consumed by alchemy, biblical chronology, and the secret architecture of creation.