Geoscience Reference
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Irish Times proclamation of 1996; James Barr, 'Pre-scientific chronology: the Bible
and the origin of the World', Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
143, part 3 (1999), 379-387; J. G. C. M. Fuller, 'Before the hills in order stood: the
beginning of geology of time in England', in Lewis and Knell, The Age of the Earth
(2001), pp. 15-23; and J. G. C. M. Fuller, 'A date to remember: 4004
BC
', Earth
Sciences History 24, part 1 (2005), 5-14.
A number of original seventeenth-century chronologies were consulted
(with profit), including:
Thomas Allen, AChain of Scripture Chronology; from the Creation of the World to
the Death of Jesus Christ. In VII. Periods (London: Printed by Thomas Roycroft
for Francis Tyton and for Nathanial Ekins, 1659)
R[oger] D[rake], Sacred Chronologie, drawn by Scripture Evidence al-along that
vast body of Time, (containing the space of almost four thousand Years) From
the Creation of the World, to the passion of our Blessed Saviour (London:
Printed by James and Joseph Maxex for Stephen Bowtell, 1648)
John Lightfoot, A Few, and New Observations, upon the Booke of Genesis. the
most of them certaine, the rest probable, all harmelesse, strange, and rarely
heard off before (London: Printed by T. Badger, 1642)
John Lightfoot, The Harmony of the Foure Evangelists; among themselves, and with
the Old Testament (London: Printed by R. Cotes from Andrew Crooke, 1644)
William Nisbit, A Scripture Chronology, wherein the principall Periods of Time
from the Creation of the World to the death of Christ, are included, and many
questions of great importance resolved (Printed for Joshua Kirton, 1655)
James Ussher, Annales veteris testamenti, a prima mundi origine deducti: una
cum rerum Asiaticarum et Aegyptiacarum chronico, a temporis historici prin-
cipio usque ad Maccabaicorum initia producto (London: Printed by J. Flesher
for L. Sadler, G. Bedell and J. Crook & J. Baker, 1650)
James Ussher, The annals of the world deduced from the origin of time, and
continued to the beginning of the Emperour Vespasians reign, and the totall
Destruction and Abolition of the temple and common-wealth of the Jews:
containing the historie of the Old and New Testament, with that of the
Macchabees, also the most memorable affairs of Asia and Egypt, and the rise
of the empire of the Roman Caesars under C. Julius, and Octavianus: collected
from all history, as well sacred, as prophane, and methodically digested
(London: Printed by E. Tyler, for J. Crook, and for G. Bedell, 1658).
Authoritative accounts of the origin of the Julian Period and the mathematics on
which it was based is given by R. L. Reese, S. M. Everett and E. D. Craun, 'The origin
of the Julian Period: an application of congruences and the Chinese Remainder
