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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    names of Kings who did nothing, and thereby they have made its Founder AEgialeus, three hun¬ dred years older than his brother Phoroneus. Some have made the Kings of Germany as old as the Flood : and yet before the ufe of letters* the names and a&ions of men could fcarce be remembred above eighty or an hundred years after their deaths: and therefore I admit no Chro¬ nology of things done in Europe, above eighty years before Cadmus brought letters into Europe -y none* of things done in Germany, before the rife of tht Roman Empire. Now fince Eratojlhenes and Apollodorus com¬ puted the times by the Reigns of the Kings of Sparta, and (as appears by their Chronology ftill followed) have made the feventeen Reigns of thefe Kings in both Races* between the Return of the Heraclides into Peloponnefus and the Battel of Thermopylce, take up 6 z z years* which is after the rate of 3 G\ years to a Reign, and yet a Race of feventeen Kings of that length is no where to be met with in all true Hiftory* and Kings at a mo¬ derate reckoning Reign but 18 or zo years a-piece one with another : I have Hated the time of the return of the Heraclides by the laft way of reckoning, placing it about 3 40 years before the Battel of Thermopylae. And making the Ta¬ king of Troy eighty years older than that Return, 4, accord-