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 / By Sir Isaac Newton.

  • Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
Date:
1728
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Credit: 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 / By Sir Isaac Newton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cancer, Chela, and Capricorn, as is affirmed by x Hipparchus Bithynus: and appears alio bv xJH,'PParch- / _ fr. . r \ n. ,rr t _ . I ad Fhaenom. the Deicnption or the Equinoctial and Tropical i-2.Sea.3-a Circles in Aratus, 7 who copied after Eudoxus; fSpparch!1’ and by the pofitions of the Colures of the E- fdIP^°12ri' quinoxes and Solftices, which in the Sphere of Eudoxus, detcribed by Hipparchus, went through the middles of thole Conftellations. For Hip¬ parchus tells us, that Eudoxus drew the Colure of the Solftices, through the middle of the great Bear, and the middle of Cancer, and the neck of Hydrus, and the Star between the Poop and Maft of Argo, and the Tayl of the South Fijh, and through the middle of Capricorn, and of Sagitta, and through the neck and right wing of the Swan, and the left hand of Cepheus •, and that he drew the Equinodial Colure, through the left hand of Ar&ophylax, and along the middle of his Body, and crols the middle of Chela, and through the right hand and fore-knee of the Centaur, and through the flexure of Eri~ darns and head of Cetus, and the back of Aries a-croft, and through the head and right hand of Perfeus. Now Chiron delineated iXvfJLm the Ajlerifms, as the ancient Author of Gigantoma- chia, cited by z Clemens Alexandrinus, informs us:E Strom. 1. for Chiron was a pradical Aftronomer, as may p’ 3°6’oSZ' M z be