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04005aam a2200445 a 4500 001 348104E23E3011E4861469EFDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140917010101 008 120626s2013 njua b 001 0beng 010 $a 2012024733 020 $a 0691154783 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 020 $a 9780691154787 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)792880975 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d CDX $d YDXCP $d STF $d BWX $d YUS $d IAD $d SJE $d VLB $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e------ $a e------ 050 00 $a QC16.N7 $b B93 2013 050 00 $a QC16.N7 $b B93 2013 100 1 $a Buchwald, Jed Z. 245 10 $a Newton and the origin of civilization / $c Jed Z. Buchwald & Mordechai Feingold. 260 $a Princeton ; $b Princeton University Press, $c c2013. 300 $a ix, 528 p. : $b ill. ; $c 26 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-514) and index. 505 0 $a 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 -- Appendix D: Placing Colures on the Original Star Globe -- Appendix E: Hesiod, Thales, and Stellar Risings and Settings. 520 $a 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."--Book Jacket. 600 10 $a Newton, Isaac, $d 1642-1727. 600 10 $a Newton, Isaac, $d 1642-1727 $x Philosophy. 600 10 $a Newton, Isaac, $d 1642-1727 $x Public opinion. 650 0 $a Scientists $z England $v Biography. 650 0 $a Philosophers $z England $v Biography. 600 10 $a Newton, Isaac, $d 1642-1727. $t Chronology of ancient kingdoms amended. 650 0 $a Chronology, Historical $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Civilization, Ancient $x Philosophy. 651 0 $a Europe $x Intellectual life $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Public opinion $z Europe $x History $y 17th century. 700 1 $a Feingold, Mordechai. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305043129.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20140917012653.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=348104E23E3011E4861469EFDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search