Screen LibraryNewton and the origin of civilization
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton |
| Publication Dates: | c2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Chronology of ancient kingdoms amended. |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 529 p.: ill. ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780691154787 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 0691154783 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
| Index Number: | N095 |
| CLC: |
N095 K835.616.11 |
| Call Number: | K835.616.11/N563B-1 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Troubled Senses -- Troubled Numbers -- Erudition and Chronology in Seventeenth-Century England -- Isaac Newton on Prophecies and Idolatry -- Aberrant Numbers : The Propagation of Mankind before and after the Deluge -- Newtonian History -- Text and Testimony -- Interpreting Words -- Publication and Reaction -- The War on Newton in England -- The War on Newton in France -- The Demise of Chronology -- Evidence and History -- Appendix A: Signs, Conventions, Dating, and Definitions -- Appendix B: Newton's Computational Methods -- Appendix C: Commented Extracts from Newton's MS Calculations -- App |