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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    / of the Greeks, to“ the Leleges and Pelafgi: whence it's probable that when Lelex and Pelafgus came firft into Greece to leek new Seats, they left part of their Colonies in Carta and the neighbouring Iflands. The Zidonians being ftill poflefled of the trade of the Mediterranean, as far weftward as Greece and Libya, and the trade of the Red Sea being richer the Tyrians traded on the Red Sea in conjunction with Solomon and the Kings of Judah, ’till after the Trojan war; and (b alfo did the Merchants of Aradusy Arvad, or Arpadz for in the Perjian Gulph b were two Iflands b strabo. i. called Tyre and Aradus, which had Temples16* like the Phoenician; and therefore the Tyrians and Aradians (ailed thither, and beyond, to the Coafts of India, while the Zidonians frequented the Mediterranean: and hence it is that Homer cele¬ brates Zidon, and makes no mention of Tyre. But at length, c in the Reign of Jehoram King c 2 chron. of Judah, Edom revolted from the Dominion ^xi; ^ of Judah, and made themfelves a King; and viii. 20,22. the trade of Judah and Tyre upon the Red Sea being thereby interrupted, the Tyrians built fhips for merchandife upon the Mediterranean, and began there to make long Voyages to places not yet frequented by the Zidonians; fbme of them going to the coafts of Afric beyond the Syrtes, and building Adrymetum, Carthage, Lep- P z tiss