Newton and the Origin of Civilization
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Analogy
Ancient history
Aries (constellation)
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Asterism (astronomy)
Astrological sign
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Chronology
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Deity
Determination
Diodorus Siculus
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Edmond Halley
Egyptians
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Erudition
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God
Hebrews
Herodotus
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Idolatry
Illustration
Israelites
Jews
Judea (Roman province)
Longitude
Manetho
Masoretic Text
Mathematician
Measurement
Narrative
Natural philosophy
New Chronology (Fomenko)
Newton's method
Ninus
Old Testament
Opticks
Perihelion and aphelion
Philology
Philosopher
Philosophy
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Reason
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Robert Hooke
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- ISBN 9780691154787
- Weight: 1338g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2012
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Isaac Newton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man's death, unleashed a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book presents a drastically revised timeline for ancient civilizations, contracting Greek history by five hundred years and Egypt's by a millennium. Newton and the Origin of Civilization tells the story of how one of the most celebrated figures in the history of mathematics, optics, and mechanics came to apply his unique ways of thinking to problems of history, theology, and mythology, and of how his radical ideas produced an uproar that reverberated in Europe's learned circles throughout the eighteenth century and beyond. Jed Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold reveal the manner in which Newton strove for nearly half a century to rectify universal history by reading ancient texts through the lens of astronomy, and to create a tight theoretical system for interpreting the evolution of civilization on the basis of population dynamics.
It was during Newton's earliest years at Cambridge that he developed the core of his singular method for generating and working with trustworthy knowledge, which he applied to his study of the past with the same rigor he brought to his work in physics and mathematics. Drawing extensively on Newton's unpublished papers and a host of other primary sources, Buchwald and Feingold reconcile Isaac Newton the rational scientist with Newton the natural philosopher, alchemist, theologian, and chronologist of ancient history.
Jed Z. Buchwald is the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology. His books include The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science (Princeton). Mordechai Feingold is professor of history at the California Institute of Technology. He is the author of The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture.
