Title Newton and the origin of civilization / Jed Z. Buchwald & Mordechai Feingold

Published Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 528 pages) : illustrations Contents Troubled Senses -- Troubled Numbers -- Erudition and Chronology in Seventeenth-Century England -- Isaac Newton on Prophecies and Idolatry -- Aberrant Numbers : The Propagation of Mankind before and after the Deluge -- Newtonian History -- Text and Testimony -- Interpreting Words -- Publication and Reaction -- The War on Newton in England -- The War on Newton in France -- The Demise of Chronology -- Evidence and History -- Appendix A: Signs, Conventions, Dating, and Definitions -- Appendix B: Newton's Computational Methods -- Appendix C: Commented Extracts from Newton's MS Calculations -- Appendix D: Placing Colures on the Original Star Globe -- Appendix E: Hesiod, Thales, and Stellar Risings and Settings Summary Isaac Newton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man's death, unleashed a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book presents a drastically revised timeline for ancient civilizations, contracting Greek history by five hundred years and Egypt's by a millennium. Newton and the Origin of Civilization tells the story of how one of the most celebrated figures in the history of mathematics, optics, and mechanics came to apply his unique ways of thinking to problems of history, theology, and mythology, and of how his radical ideas produced an uproar that reverberated in Europe's learned circles throughout the eighteenth century and beyond Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-514) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 -- Philosophy Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 -- Public opinion Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. Chronology of ancient kingdoms amended. Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. Chronology of ancient kingdoms amended Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 -- Public opinion Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 -- Philosophy Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 SUBJECT Chronology of ancient kingdoms amended (Newton, Isaac) fast Subject Scientists -- England -- Biography Philosophers -- England -- Biography Chronology, Historical -- History -- 17th century Civilization, Ancient -- Philosophy Public opinion -- Europe -- History -- 17th century BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology. SCIENCE -- Energy. SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General. SCIENCE -- Physics -- General. HISTORY -- Modern -- 18th Century. Chronology, Historical Civilization, Ancient -- Philosophy Intellectual life Philosophers Philosophy Public opinion Scientists Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. England Europe Genre/Form Biographies History Form Electronic book Author Feingold, Mordechai LC no. 2012024733 ISBN 9781400845187 1400845181 9781283851275 128385127X

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