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1st ed.

Bielefeld : Amsterdam University Press, 2021

1 online resource (311 pages)

ISBN 9789048554287 (electronic bk.)

Print version: Schilt, Cornelis Isaac Newton and the Study of Chronology Bielefeld : Amsterdam University Press,c2021

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Conventions -- Introduction -- 1 Past, Present, Future -- 1 Chronology as an Early Modern Discipline -- 2 The Four Monarchies -- 3 Isaac Newton … Chronologist? -- 2 Reading Classics -- 1 Reading for the ’Origines’ -- 2 Notes and Records -- 3 An Independent Scholar -- 3 Chaos and Order -- 1 The Origins of the ’Origines’ -- 2 ’Originals’ -- 3 Ordering Words and Worlds -- 4 Lost in Space and Time -- 4 Sacred Chronology -- 1 Methodising the Apocalypse -- 2 Rooted in Scripture -- 3 Critical Readings -- Some Concluding Remarks -- Appendices -- Appendix A: The Evolution of the ’Origines’ -- Appendix B: From ’Origines’ to Proto-Chronology -- Bibliography -- Index.

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