The chronology of ancient kingdoms amended. To which is prefix'd, a short chronicle from the first memory of things in Europe, to the conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great / By Sir Isaac Newton.

  • Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
Date:
1728
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Credit: The chronology of ancient kingdoms amended. To which is prefix'd, a short chronicle from the first memory of things in Europe, to the conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great / By Sir Isaac Newton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that they went backwards one Degree in about an hundred years. He made his obfervations of the Equinoxes between the years of Nabonaffar 586 and 618: the middle year is 6oi> which is 28 6 years after the aforelaid obierva- tion of Meton and EuSfemon; and in thefe years the Equinox muft have gone backwards four degrees, and fo have been in the fourth De¬ gree of Aries in the days of Hipparchus, and by confequence have then gone back eleven De¬ grees fince the Argonautic Expedition$ that is, in 1090 years, according to the Chronology of the ancient Greeks then in ufe: and this is after the rate of about years, or in the next round number an hundred years to a Degree, as was then Bated by Hipparchus. But it really went back a Degree in feventy and two years, and eleven Degrees in 792 years: count thefe 75>2 years backward from the year of Nabo- najffar 602, the year from which we counted the 286 years, and * the reckoning will place the Argonautic Expedition about 43 years after the death of Solomon. The Greeks have there¬ fore made the Argonautic Expedition about three hundred years ancienter than the truth, and thereby given occafion to the opinion of the great Hipparchus, that the Equinox went back¬ ward after the rate of only a Degree in an hun¬ dred years, Hejiod