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The Creation of Time
Author(s) -
Hiscock Peter
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
archaeology in oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1834-4453
pISSN - 0728-4896
DOI - 10.1002/j.1834-4453.1996.tb00354.x
Subject(s) - fell , equinox , reign , evening , writ , history , ancient history , annals , fall of man , period (music) , chorus , dozen , archaeology , art , geography , literature , cartography , law , politics , physics , geodesy , arithmetic , mathematics , astronomy , political science , latitude , aesthetics
And I have observed by the continued succession of these years, as they are delivered in holy writ, that the end of the great Nebuchadnezars and the beginning of Evil Merodachs (his sons) reign, fell out in the 3442 year of the world, but by collation of Chaldean history and the astronomical cannon, it fell out in the 186 year of Nabonsar, and, as by certain connexion, it must follow in the 562 year before the Christian account, and of the Julian Period, the 4152, and from thence I gathered the creation of the world did fall out upon the 710 year of the Julian Period, by placing its beginning in autumn; but for as much as the first day of the world began with the evening of the first day of the week, I have observed that the Sunday, which in the year 710 aforesaid came nearest the Autumnal equinox, by astronomical tables (notwithstanding the stay of the sun in the days of Joshua, and the going back of it in the days of Ezekiah) happened upon the 23 day of the Julian October; from thence concluded that from the evening preceding that first day of the Julian year, both the first day of the creation and the first motion of time are to be deduced. (J. Ussher, the annals of the World , 1658)