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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Thucydides, who wrote before chronology was corrupted by the vanity of their nation, or the abfurd fyftems of latef hiftorians. It is an argument greatly in favour of the credibility of the Old Teftament hiftory, that the courfes of generations and de- fcents which are mentioned in it, parallel to thofe in the fabulous period of the Grecian hiftory, fall within the fame intervals of time with thofe which have been meafured fmce hiftory has been authentic. Confequently, it is another argument in favour of Newton's correction of the ancient Greek chronology, that it brings the courfes of generations and fucceffions in the one to correfpond to thofe in the other. Befides, in feveral other refpects it brings them to a greater harmony than can be made out upon any other principles. Particularly it places the expedition of Sefoftris (who as it it highly probable from feveral circumftances, was the fame perfon with Sefac) in the very time in which it is fpoken of in the fcriptures. LECTURE XI. T!), Time of paft Events afccrtained by Means of celejlial Appearances. The Certainty of ike Method of Computation by E'lipfi'S. A few ancient Edipfes enumerated. The Ufe of th -m exemplified in the Calculation of an ancient Eclipfe of the Moon. JT? all the incidental circumftances by which ancient writers enable us, in an indirect manner, to afcertain the time of events, none give occafion to more clear and undeniable conclufions than the mention they make of celeftial appearances, on account of the regularity and conftancy of the revolutions of the heavenly bodics, and becaufe the laws of their motions are fo exactly known to us. In this refpect much are modern chronologers and hiftorians obliged to the fuper- ftition with which the ancients regarded unufual appearances in the heave...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217860383
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 162
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217860389
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 299 gr


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