Newton and the origin of civilization / Jed Z. Buchwald & Mordechai Feingold.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Buchwald, Jed Z.
• TeilnehmendeR: Feingold, Mordechai.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: ix, 528 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• 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.