The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended

Isaac Newton — from the first edition (London, 1728), at Project Gutenberg.

Published the year after Newton’s death by John Conduitt, his nephew by marriage. It sets out to bring the histories of the Greeks, Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians down to the measure of the Hebrew Scriptures, shortening them by centuries on the evidence of the precession of the equinoxes and the average length of reigns — and in the fifth chapter reconstructs, cubit by cubit from Ezekiel, the Temple of Solomon, which Newton held to be the pattern of true worship. It is the companion to the Observations upon the Prophecies, and was the book of his that Newton was revising when he died.

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Contents (10)

1. The Dedication to the Queen, by John Conduitt
2. Advertisement
3. A Short Chronicle: The Introduction
4. A Short Chronicle
5. Chapter 1. Of the Chronology of the First Ages of the Greeks
6. Chapter 2. Of the Empire of Egypt
7. Chapter 3. Of the ASSYRIAN Empire
8. Chapter 4. Of the two Contemporary Empires of the Babylonians and Medes
9. Chapter 5. A Description of the TEMPLE of Solomon
10. Chapter 6. Of the Empire of the Persians