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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    [Viii] Here TOUR MAJESTY will fee Aftronomy, and a jujl Obferva- tion on the courfe of Nature) ajfifi- ing other parts of Learning to illu- firate Antiquity; and a Penetration and Sagacity peculiar to the great Authori difpelling that Mifl-, with which Fable and Error had darken¬ ed it\ and will with pleafure con¬ template the firjl dawnings of Tour favourite Arts and Sciences') the no- blefi and mojl beneficial of which He alone carried farther in a few years, than all the mofi Learned who went before him.> had been able to do in many Ages. Here too, MADAM, Tou will obferve, that an Abhorrence of Idolatry and Per- fedition (the very effence and foun- 1 dation