Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Tables xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Troubled Senses 8
8. 2. Troubled Numbers 44
9. 3. Erudition and Chronology in Seventeenth-Century England 107
10. 4. Isaac Newton on Prophecies and Idolatry 126
11. 5. Aberrant Numbers: The Propagation of Mankind before and after the Deluge 164
12. 6. Newtonian History 195
13. 7. Text and Testimony 222
14. 9. Publication and Reaction 246
15. 10. The War on Newton in England 331
16. 11. The War on Newton in France 353
17. 12. The Demise of Chronology 381
18. 13. Evidence and History 423
19. Appendix A: Signs, Conventions, Dating, and Definitions 437
20. Appendix B: Newton’s Computational Methods 441
21. Appendix C: Commented Extracts from Newton’s MS Calculations 447
22. Appendix D: Placing Colures on the Original Star Globe 464
23. Appendix E: Hesiod, Thales, and Stellar Risings and Settings 468
24. Bibliography 489
25. Index 515