The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended. Isaac Newton

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       Isaac Newton

      The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended

      To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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       LONDON

       MDCCXXVIII.

       TO THE

       QUEEN.

       MADAM,

       THE CONTENTS.

       Advertisement.

       A SHORT

       CHRONICLE

       The INTRODUCTION.

       A SHORT

       CHRONICLE

       THE

       CHRONOLOGY

       OF ANCIENT KINGDOMS AMENDED.

       CHAP. I.

       Of the Chronology of the First Ages of the Greeks .

       CHAP. II

       Of the Empire of Egypt .

       CHAP. III.

       Of the A SSYRIAN Empire.

       CHAP. IV.

       Of the two Contemporary Empires of the Babylonians and Medes .

       CHAP. V.

       A Description of the T EMPLE of Solomon .

       Ezekiel chap. xl. ver. 5, &c.

       A Description of THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON

       A Description of the Inner Court & Buildings for the Priests in Solomons Temple.

       A Particular Description of one of the Gates of the Peoples Court, with part of the Cloyster adjoyning.

       CHAP. VI.

       Of the Empire of the Persians .

       FINIS.

       Notes.

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MDCCXXVIII.

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      MADAM,

      As I could never hope to write any thing my self, worthy to be laid before YOUR MAJESTY; I think it a very great happiness, that it should be my lot to usher into the world, under Your Sacred Name, the last work of as great a Genius as any Age ever produced: an Offering of such value in its self, as to be in no danger of suffering from the meanness of the hand that presents it.

      The impartial and universal encouragement which YOUR MAJESTY has always given to Arts and Sciences, entitles You to the best returns the learned world is able to make: And the many extraordinary Honours YOUR MAJESTY vouchsafed the Author of the following sheets, give You a just right to his Productions. These, above the rest, lay the most particular claim to Your Royal Protection; For the Chronology had never appeared in its present Form without YOUR MAJESTY's Influence; and the Short Chronicle, which precedes it, is entirely owing to the Commands with which You were pleased to honour him, out of your singular Care for the education of the Royal Issue, and earnest desire to form their minds betimes, and lead them early into the knowledge of Truth.

      The Author has himself acquainted the Publick, that the following Treatise was the fruit of his vacant hours, and the relief he sometimes had recourse to, when tired with his other studies. What an Idea does it raise of His abilities, to find that a Work of such labour and learning, as would have been a sufficient employment and glory for the whole life of another, was to him diversion only, and amusement! The Subject is in its nature incapable of that demonstration upon which his other writings are founded, but his usual accuracy and judiciousness are here no less observable; And at the same time that he supports