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

• 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.

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Kulturhistoria  (sao)

Intellektuellt liv  -- historia (sao)

Scientists  -- England -- Biography. (LCSH)

Philosophers  -- England -- Biography. (LCSH)

Chronology, Historical  -- History -- 17th century. (LCSH)

Civilization, Ancient  -- Philosophy. (LCSH)

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Philosophers  (LCSH)

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Europe  -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. (LCSH)

Storbritannien  -- England.

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Personnamn

Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 -- Philosophy.

Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 -- Public opinion.

Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727

Namn/titel

Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.: Chronology of ancient kingdoms amended. 

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QC16.N7 (LCC)

530.092 (DDC)

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