TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buchwald,Jed Z.
AU  - Feingold,Mordechai
TI  - Newton and the origin of civilization
SN  - 9781400845187
AV  - QC16.N7 B93 2013eb
U1  - 530.092 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Princeton, Oxford
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Newton, Isaac,
KW  - Chronology of ancient kingdoms amended (Newton, Isaac)
KW  - fast
KW  - Scientists
KW  - England
KW  - Biography
KW  - Philosophers
KW  - Chronology, Historical
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Civilization, Ancient
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Europe
KW  - Philosophes
KW  - Angleterre
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Chronologie historique
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 17e siècle
KW  - Civilisation ancienne
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Opinion publique
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Science & Technology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Energy
KW  - Mechanics
KW  - General
KW  - Physics
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Modern
KW  - 18th Century
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-514) and index; 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
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
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