62 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NEWTON 



Collation: Title, and Dedication to the Queen by John Conduitt, pp. 

 [i] [xiv] + Contents, and Advertisement, i 1. + [i] [376]. Sigs. A, 

 a, B Bbb 4 . 3 plates opposite p. 346. 



An engraved head-piece precedes the Dedication, P. Fourdrinier fecit. 



Contents: (a) A Short Chronicle from the first memory of Things in Europe, to the 

 Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great, (b) The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms 

 amended, i. Of the Chronology of the First Ages of the Greeks. 2. Of the Empire of 

 Egypt- 3- f tne Assyrian Empire. 4. Of the two Contemporary Empires of the Baby- 

 lonians and Medes. 5. A Description of the Temple of Solomon. 6. Of the Empire of 

 the Persians. 



Printed at Dublin the same year. 



Dublin : Printed by S. Powell, for George Risk, at Shakespear 's- 

 head, George Ewing, at the Angel and Bible, And William Smith, 

 at the Hercules, Booksellers in Dame's-street, 1728. 8vo. [310 



pp. xiv + 378, with 3 plates at p. 346. 



The same Contents as the London Edition, with the addition of a 2-page list of Sub- 

 scribers' names, consisting of 141 names of persons principally living in Ireland. 



* Tho' the Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms amended was writ by ths author many 

 years since ; yet he lately revis'd it, and was actually preparing it for Press at the time of his 

 Death. The Short Chronicle was never intended to be made public, and therefore was not 

 so lately corrected by him.' Advertisement. 



The History of the Short Chronicle is given in Brewster's Newton, 1855, H- PP- 3 O1 

 312. At the request of the Princess of Wales, Newton supplied her with the work on con- 

 dition that it should not be communicated to any other person. Afterwards his permission 

 was obtained for the Abbe Conti to have a copy of it, but subject to the same condition. 

 But when the Abbe returned to Paris he communicated it to various persons, and M. Freret 

 translated it into French, with observations of his own. This translation came into the 

 possession of G. Cavelier, a bookseller of Paris, who, wishing to publish it, wrote to Newton 

 in May, 1724, and not receiving any answer, wrote again in March, 1725, saying he would 

 consider his silence as consent to the publication of the work, with remarks. Cavelier then 

 requested a friend in London to obtain an answer from Newton, which he did receive (dated 

 May 27, 1725) refusing consent to publication, but the work was already printed when the 

 letter arrived. A copy of the printed work (see below, No. 312) was sent to Newton, nth 

 Nov. 1725, who then drew up a paper entitled : 



Remarks on the Observations made on a Chronological Index of 

 Sir Isaac Newton, translated into French by the Observer, and 

 published at Paris. [3 1 1 



which was printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Vol. XXXIII. 

 1725, p. 315), wherein he accused the Abbe Conti with a breach of promise, and blames the 

 publisher for the publication of the work. On the appearance of Father Souciet's attack in 

 1726 (see No. 325), Newton was prevailed upon to prepare his larger work for the press, but 

 it was not ready till nearly the time of his death. 



