http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/8717...

17/06/2007
Father of modern science calculated: World to end in 2060
By Ofri Ilani, Haaretz Correspondent
Excerpt
How did Newton's writings end up at the Hebrew University? According to Ben-Menachem, his heirs were not interested in his theological writings, and Sotheby's auctioned them in 1936. The British economist John Maynard Keynes acquired them. He bequeathed them to Kings College, Cambridge, in England, and to the Jewish Oriental studies scholar Abraham Shalom Yahuda. Before the latter's death in 1951, he bequeathed them to the State of Israel.