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001 2012024733
003 DLC
005 20120711083925.0
008 120626s2012 nju b 001 0beng
010 $a 2012024733
020 $a9780691154787 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
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043 $ae-uk-en$ae------
050 00 $aQC16.N7$bB93 2012
082 00 $a530.092$223
100 1 $aBuchwald, Jed Z.
245 10 $aNewton and the origin of civilization /$cJed Z. Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold.
260 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2012.
263 $a1210
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aTroubled 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.
600 10 $aNewton, Isaac,$cSir,$d1642-1727.
600 10 $aNewton, Isaac,$cSir,$d1642-1727$xPhilosophy.
600 10 $aNewton, Isaac,$cSir,$d1642-1727$xPublic opinion.
650 0 $aScientists$zEngland$vBiography.
650 0 $aPhilosophers$zEngland$vBiography.
600 10 $aNewton, Isaac,$cSir,$d1642-1727.$tChronology of ancient kingdoms amended.
650 0 $aChronology, Historical$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aCivilization, Ancient$xPhilosophy.
651 0 $aEurope$xIntellectual life$y17th century.
650 0 $aPublic opinion$zEurope$xHistory$y17th century.
700 1 $aFeingold, Mordechai.