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" Newton and the origin of civilization / "
Jed Z. Buchwald & Mordechai Feingold
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BL
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632515
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Buchwald, Jed Z
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Newton and the origin of civilization /\ Jed Z. Buchwald Mordechai Feingold
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ix, 528 pages :: illustrations ;; 26 cm
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9780691154787
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: 0691154783
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [489]-514) and index
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| Contents
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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
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Newton, Isaac,1642-1727
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Newton, Isaac,1642-1727-- Philosophy
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Newton, Isaac,1642-1727-- Public opinion
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Newton, Isaac,1642-1727., Chronology of ancient kingdoms amended
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Scientists-- England, Biography
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Philosophers-- England, Biography
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Chronology, Historical-- History-- 17th century
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Civilization, Ancient-- Philosophy
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Public opinion-- Europe-- History-- 17th century
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Europe, Intellectual life, 17th century
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QC16.N7B93 2013
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Feingold, Mordechai
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