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According to John Conduitt's introductory letter, The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended was Isaac Newton's last personally revised work before his death but had actually been written much earlier.
Feb 6, 2017 · In January 1728, less than ten months after Isaac Newton died, a volume bearing his name titled The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended was published. It might have come as a surprise to those unaware of his interests in the history of Egypt, Persia, Medea Greece, Assyria, and Babylon.
Often attributed solely to Newton’s executor, John Conduitt, the Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended (1728) was in fact co-edited with the antiquarian Martin Folkes, who would eventually follow in Newton’s footsteps and become President of the Royal Society.
- Cornelis J. Schilt
- 2020
CHRONOLOGY OF ANCIENT KINGDOMS AMENDED. To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great. By Sir ISAAC NEWTON. LONDON: Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand, and J. Osborn and T. Longman in Pater-noster Row. MDCCXXVIII.
May 7, 2005 · This work focuses on the chronological history of various ancient kingdoms, refining and correcting the timelines established by earlier historians. The book delves into the lineage and reigns of notable kings and civilizations, including the Greeks, Egyptians, Assyrians, and others, as it aims to clarify the ambiguities surrounding their ...
- Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727
- D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere
- English
In The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, Newton first provides a brief chronicle of the events between early European history and Alexander the Great’s conquest of Persia, and then discusses the chronology of the Greeks, the Empires of Egypt and Assyria, the contemporary Empires of the Babylonians and Medes, the constitution of Solomon ...
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May 7, 2005 · But Chronology was now reduced to a reckoning by Years; and in the next Olympiad Timæus Siculus improved it: for he wrote a History in Several books, down to his own times, according to the Olympiads; comparing the Ephori, the Kings of Sparta, the Archons of Athens, and the Priestesses of Argos with the Olympic Victors, so as to make the ...
