Isaac Newton's "Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended,"
published in 1728, one year after the great man's death, unleashed
a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book presents a
drastically revised timeline for ancient civilizations, contracting
Greek history by five hundred years and Egypt's by a millennium.
"Newton and the Origin of Civilization" tells the story of how one
of the most celebrated figures in the history of mathematics,
optics, and mechanics came to apply his unique ways of thinking to
problems of history, theology, and mythology, and of how his
radical ideas produced an uproar that reverberated in Europe's
learned circles throughout the eighteenth century and beyond.
Jed Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold reveal the manner in which
Newton strove for nearly half a century to rectify universal
history by reading ancient texts through the lens of astronomy, and
to create a tight theoretical system for interpreting the evolution
of civilization on the basis of population dynamics. It was during
Newton's earliest years at Cambridge that he developed the core of
his singular method for generating and working with trustworthy
knowledge, which he applied to his study of the past with the same
rigor he brought to his work in physics and mathematics. Drawing
extensively on Newton's unpublished papers and a host of other
primary sources, Buchwald and Feingold reconcile Isaac Newton the
rational scientist with Newton the natural philosopher, alchemist,
theologian, and chronologist of ancient history.
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