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The Chronology of Antient Kingdoms Amended.

1738réf. 58701NEWTON'S RADICAL THEOLOGICAL OPINIONS SANITIZED - RARE ISSUE FOR SALE IN IRELAND first edition issue with title page indicating for sale in Ireland 4to.26 x 20.5 cms. xvi 376pp. 3 folding plates of the Temple of Solomon contemporary sprinkled calf double gilt fillet border on sides with tiny gilt leaf ornaments at corners. spine panelled by raised bands edges sprinkled red short crack at head of front joint lacks title label on spine front free endpaper pasted down very light water mark on early leaves running to about p.80 but always light and generally unobtrusive and generally diminishing so that by p.100 it is barely discernable very light waterstain at one point on fore-margin of the last few leaves else a fresh copy. Contemporary inscription on upper edge of a terminal blank endpaper "10s.10d To E: Hudson" and a faint early signature in a small hand at upper margin of title page "G. T. Payne". ESTC t30722 GRAY 'Newton Bibliography' 309 The imprint of the standard first edition ESTC n2784 names only the London booksellers Tonson Osborn and Longman but special cancel title pages were printed for copies destined to be sold in both Dublin and Edinburgh ESTC n962 and these are understandably much rarer than the standard one. Newton 1642–1727 natural philosopher and mathematician had been elected a fellow of Trinity College Cambridge in 1667 and Lucastrian professor of mathematics in 1669. Those positions combined with income from his estate made him both financially secure and almost free from prescribed duties. His great researches on optics were the first fruits of that freedom. However at the same time he became an earnest student of both alchemy and of theology. His surviving manuscripts show that in the latter field he reached firstly an anti-Trinitarian or Arian position which developed into an even more radical position which saw Jesus as merely the latest of a series of prophets sent by God to reclaim mankind from false gods a position Newton developed in the 1680s in the unpublished manuscript of "his most important theological composition 'Theologiae gentilis origines philosophicae' 'The philosophical origins of gentile theology'" O.D.N.B. Such opinions were completely unacceptable to contemporary society and Newton realising that they would have undermined his position kept them a closely guarded secret but in later life he revisited the treatise and "thoroughly purged it became his 'Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended' 1728. The original treatise he kept to himself . When he died his heirs found the completed manuscript of the Chronology which they immediately sold to a publisher for £350" O.D.N.B. and the book was published shortly thereafter. The book was distributed in Dublin by Smith and Bruce. John Smith an Ulster Presbyterian whose radical activities had led to his expulsion from Glasgow University in 1722 came to Dublin in 1724 where with the sympathetically minded William Smith and later William Bruce he established a book-selling business. They were notable for their intellectual and continental connections they were cousins of the philosopher Francis Hutcheson and their publication of works challenging conventional opinions. E. Hudson is probably Edward Hudson 1703 ca. - 1757 of Ardee Co. Louth who having entered Trinity College in 1722 aged 19 became a Fellow in 1728 the year of publication of this book. He was later Rector of Omagh. The signature on the title page may be that of Rev. George Thomas Payne 1819-1888 of Kilkenny who had entered T.C.D. in 1833. Printed for J. Tonson, J. Osborn, and T. Longman; and sold by Messieurs Smith and Bruce Booksellers on the Blind Key in Dublin hardcover

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