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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    1048. The Edomites are conquered and dip- petfed by David, and feme of them fly into Egypt with their young King Hadad. Others fly to the Perjian Gulpb with their Commander Oannes j and others from the Red Sea to the coaft of the Mediterranean, and fortify Azoth againfl: David, and take Zidon; and the Zido- nians who fled from them build Tyre and Ara- dus, and make Abibalus King of Tyre. Thefe Edomites carry to all places their Arts and Sci¬ ences ; amongft which were their Navigation, Aftronomy, and Letters; for in Idumaa they had Constellations and Letters before the days of Job, who mentions them: and there Mofes learnt to write the Law in a book. Thefe E- domites who fled to the Mediterranean, tranflat- ing the word Erythraa into that of Phoenicia, give the name of Phoenicians to themfelves, and that of Phoenicia to all the fea-coafts of Palejiine from Azoth to Zidon. And hence came the tradition of the Perjians, and of the Phoenicians themfelves, mentioned by Herodotus, that the Phoenicians came originally from the Red Sea, and prefently undertook long voyages on the Mediterranean. 1047. Acrijius marries Eurydicey the daughter of Lacedaemon and Sparta. The Phoenician mari¬ ners who fled from the Red Sea} being ufed to long