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rl. NOUVELLE S-piENCE M'ES lEMP^, 
0U Mojen general de^ comilier ks Chromkguei j par k 
S. Meaard , Seigneur dlfernc, A Paris, in 1 20, 
rr^Her^ being found fo little certainty among Ghronologers^ 
qX ^^^^ Author endeavours to reconcile them, by pro 
pofing four principles, whereby he pretends to make icour^ 
that they may be made to agree together. 
The /frj? is, that in every f^/Erd ^ or way of computing the 
Times, otherwife called Efocha s^ there are divers Hypothe* 
fes, of which fome are fliorter, fome longer. 
The feccnd^ that the new ^Mras are efJabliflied upon the 
Ancient, according to their different hypothefes. 
The^thirdy that the different marks of the Time of theE- 
vents, which depend upon different hypothefes , do figaifie one 
and the fame time. 
'The pfi^th y thsit the Time or ^ Year wherein the Even^is 
ex^nf^to pafs which gives the name to every Ep0iha, is certain, 
and agreed ufppn by all Authors. 
For Example, jP/i;5i; faith , that theophrafius affirms, that 
GalUas found Vermiilon ninety years before Praxibuks , Pretor 
of Athens % which comes to the three hundred forty ninth 
year of Kome* Praxibulus^ according to the Chronology of 
the Greeks , was Precor of Athens the third year of the one 
hundred and fixceenth Olympiad. The nioetieth year before 
him falls out in the firft year of the ninetieth Olympiad, 
which, according to Eratojlhenes^ is in effeS the three hun- 
dred forty ninth year of Rome, But the fame year of the 
fame Olympiad, according to rkrr^, is the three hundred one 
and fiftieth of Rome: On the contrary, that year which is 
the three hundred forty ninth of Rme ^ according to Varro^ 
is the third of the ninety third Olympiad, according to £r^- 
tojlhenes. 
So that you may fee by this Exam pie, (where in Pliny makes 
ufeof thefirfl hypothefis of Eratojlhenes , though elfe he often 
ufeth the firft of thofe that have refpeS to Eufehius and farro ) 
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