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TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of Illustrations vii 1 Troubled Senses 8 2 Troubled Numbers 44 3 Erudition and Chronology in Seventeenth-Century England 107 4 Isaac Newton on Prophecies and Idolatry 126 5 Aberrant Numbers: The Propagation of Mankind before and after the Deluge 164 6 Newtonian History 195 7 Text and Testimony 222 8 Interpreting Words 246 9 Publication and Reaction 307 10 The War on Newton in England 331 11 The War on Newton in France 353 12 The Demise of Chronology 381 13 Evidence and History 423 Appendix A Signs, Conventions, Dating, and Definitions 437 Appendix B Newton's Computational Methods 441 Appendix C Commented Extracts from Newton's MS Calculations 447 Appendix D Placing Colures on the Original Star Globe 464 Appendix E Hesiod, Thales, and Stellar Risings and Settings 468 Bibliography 489 File created: 4/25/2013 | |
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