The good Effects of this Love of knowledge, will not stop with the present Age; It will diffuse its Influence with advantage to late Posterity:  And what may we not anticipate in our minds for the Generations to come under a Royal Progeny, so descended, so educated, and formed by such Patterns!

The glorious Prospect gives us abundant reason to hope, that Liberty and Learning will be perpetuated together; and that the bright Examples of Virtue and Wisdom, set in this Reign by the Royal Patrons of Both, will be transmitted with the Scepter to their Posterity, till this and the other Works of Sir ISAAC NEWTON shall be forgot, and Time it self be no more:  Which is the most sincere and ardent wish of

MADAM,

May it please YOUR MAJESTY,

YOUR MAJESTY’s most obedient and most dutiful subject and servant,

John Conduitt.

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THE CONTENTS.

A Short Chronicle from the first Memory of Things in page 1 Europe_, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great._

The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms amended.

Chap.  I. Of the Chronology of the First Ages of the p. 43
Greeks_._

Chap.  II. Of the Empire of Egypt_._ p. 191

Chap.  III. Of the Assyrian Empire. p. 265

Chap.  IV. Of the two Contemporary Empires of the p. 294 Babylonians_ and Medes._

Chap.  V. A Description of the Temple of Solomon_._ p. 332

Chap.  VI. Of the Empire of the Persians_._ p. 347

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