(9J7) 
ifiany things J mofl: worthy to be known, may be found, for 
which you may look in vain elfcwhere. 
And what he pcrformes herein , he doth in a Method different 
from others ) vi&, meerly hy ArHhmetick^ without the aid of 
chronological tables which , even of the beft Aiathors, will 
hardly be found without manifold faults. 
In the jf?ry?Bookhe UQUsof Time ingeneral-j ofaMomentj 
(J^ Scrupula 5 ) an Hour , a Day ^ Week, Month ; And then of 
the feveral forts of Years ^ th^ Celellial^ lulian^ Gregorian^ 
zy£gjptian^ iiA'thioficki Ferfian, Syriack and Grecian item 5 the 
Agronomical 9 Civil y mi SaUr Year of the lews ^ and the ^;-^- 
bick year. 
In the fecond^xh^ Author (fliewing good skill in Aftronomy) 
treats of Conj^nBiom ^ and Ecliffesy o{ the Equinoxes 2X\i S oi- 
fiiceSj the Circle of the Sun , and the Dominical Letter ^ the 
Circle of the Moon or the Golden number , the Roman Indie- 
4kni and Efaifst, of feveral eminent Periods or Revolutions of 
Irime j. as the Metonick^ Cdif^ick ^ the Dhnyftan znd lulian- 
Period-, of feveral e^r^'/or fixed Charailers ot Time, as the 
Chriflian and Diode fian 5 of the Age of the World according 
to the Accompt of thecr^a^/^i: Moreover of the leivifh^ray 
The iEra or Ethniek Accompt fiom the taking of Tro) and the 
jintiochenian Efocha : the ohmpads , and Agones Cafitolinii Gf 
; the year, the Spmijh ^ra-^ the <!y£ra of the Vidory at 
Adium 5 the Epcha oiNahmfjan, as alfo of the .Philippean^ 
Alexandrian 5 and the Yezdegirdican Epocha5 and of th^Ma- 
' humetan t/Era, the Hegira, or Flight of Mahomet. 
In the Arithmetic-al Part ^ the Author fhews not only his 
great skill in Arithmetick , even m the Speculative parts there- 
of;,accompanied with good knowledge inthe Grounds of Geometry 
but likewife his underftanding ot Bxocick and Ancient Lan- 
guages 5 and, as a Specimen thereof, explains the Common 
Charaders of Arithmetick, as he doth alfo the Indian ^ 
JRoman, Hebrew ^Samaritany Gr^cun^ Sjriac y Arahickzwd ^y£thio* 
//ri'Charaders, And to the End of the jV^^?;?^ Book be hatfi 
annexed an Appendix^ wherein , in i^i»/?-/^;^ Letters, he hath ex- 
planed the Hebrew ^Syriack ^ -'■-Im^ zy£thiopck and Arabick 
Words for the refpeilire Muiiias of the Year 5 for' the ayde 
