The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended
By Sir Isaac Newton, an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian who is considered by many scholars and members of the general public to be one of the most influential men in human history. Many years of his life Newton devoted to historical chronology. He found out impropriety of the Scaliger-Petavius’ version of chronology after long laborious studying. Newton methodized it and offered a brief clear account, concerning ancient history. Upheld
...by natural-science ideas, he reorganized the Scaliger-Petavius’ version, abridging it and drawing it near our times. By this valuable, for world history and culture, treatise Newton left his time far behind. This book evoked a storm of discussion in press, though was later suppressed and per se taken out of scientific circulation.
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