TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buchwald,Jed Z.
AU  - Feingold,Mordechai
TI  - Newton and the Origin of Civilization
SN  - 9780691154787
AV  - QC16.N7 B93 2017
U1  - 530.092 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Chronology, Historical
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Civilization, Ancient
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Philosophers
KW  - England
KW  - Biography
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Europe
KW  - Scientists
KW  - SCIENCE / History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aegyptiaca of Manetho
KW  - Antonio Conti
KW  - Arthur Bedford
KW  - Bible
KW  - Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms
KW  - Church history
KW  - Etienne Souciet
KW  - France
KW  - Genesis
KW  - Greek idolatry
KW  - HookeЈevelius controversy
KW  - Isaac Newton
KW  - Jean Du Temps
KW  - Johannes Hevelius
KW  - John Senex
KW  - Marmor Parium
KW  - Original of Monarchies
KW  - Persika of Ctesias of Cnidus
KW  - Robert Hooke
KW  - Royal dispensation
KW  - Scripture
KW  - The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms
KW  - Trinity College
KW  - Trojan War
KW  - alchemist
KW  - alchemy
KW  - ancient civilization
KW  - ancient empires
KW  - ancient history
KW  - ancient prophecies
KW  - anti-Trinitarianism
KW  - antiquity
KW  - astronomical chronology
KW  - astronomical data
KW  - astronomical tools
KW  - astronomy
KW  - calculation
KW  - cardinal points
KW  - chronological studies
KW  - chronologist
KW  - chronology
KW  - civilization
KW  - evolution
KW  - globes
KW  - heresy
KW  - heretic
KW  - historical knowledge
KW  - historical texts
KW  - holy orders
KW  - learning
KW  - mathematics
KW  - measurement
KW  - mechanics
KW  - monarchy
KW  - natural knowledge
KW  - natural philosopher
KW  - nineteenth century
KW  - optics
KW  - ordination
KW  - perception
KW  - population dynamics
KW  - population growth
KW  - population
KW  - publication
KW  - radical ideas
KW  - science
KW  - scientists
KW  - seventeenth century
KW  - theologian
KW  - theology
KW  - words
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; List of Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Troubled Senses --; 2. Troubled Numbers --; 3. Erudition and Chronology in Seventeenth-Century England --; 4. Isaac Newton on Prophecies and Idolatry --; 5. Aberrant Numbers: The Propagation of Mankind before and after the Deluge --; 6. Newtonian History --; 7. Text and Testimony --; 9. Publication and Reaction --; 10. The War on Newton in England --; 11. The War on Newton in France --; 12. The Demise of Chronology --; 13. 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 --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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. Jed Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold reveal the manner in which Newton strove for nearly half a century to rectify universal history by reading ancient texts through the lens of astronomy, and to create a tight theoretical system for interpreting the evolution of civilization on the basis of population dynamics. It was during Newton's earliest years at Cambridge that he developed the core of his singular method for generating and working with trustworthy knowledge, which he applied to his study of the past with the same rigor he brought to his work in physics and mathematics. Drawing extensively on Newton's unpublished papers and a host of other primary sources, Buchwald and Feingold reconcile Isaac Newton the rational scientist with Newton the natural philosopher, alchemist, theologian, and chronologist of ancient history
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