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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    fc In the life ©f Solon. 7he Introduction. Lycurgus upon it. Others fupputing the times bythe fuccejfion of the Kings of the Lacedemonians, as Era- toflhenes and Apollodorus, affirm that he was not a few years older than the firJi Olympiad, Firft Arifiotle and fome others made him as old as the firft: Olympiad} then Eratofihenes, Apollodo¬ rus, and fome others made him above an hun¬ dred years older: and in another place Plutarch b tells us: The congrefs of Solon with Croefus, fome think they can confute by Chronology. But an hifiory fo illufirious, and verified by fo ynany wit- neffes, and {which, is. more) fo agreeable to the manners of Solon, and fo worthy of the greatnefs of his mind and of his wifdom, I cannot perfuade my felf to rejeB becaufe of fome Chronological Ca¬ nons, as they call them: which hundreds of authors correcting, have not yet been able to confiitute any thing certain, in which they could agree among them- felves, about repugnancies. It feems the Chrono- logers had made the Legiflature of Solon too ancient to confifl with that Congrefs. For reconciling fuch repugnancies, Chronolo- gers have fometimes doubled the perfons of men. So when the Poets had changed Io the daughter of Inachus into the Egyptian Ifis, Chronologers made her husband Ofiris or Bac¬ chus and his miftrefs Ariadne as old as Io, and fo feigned that there were two Ariadnes, one