chronologer, a role he does not seem to have performed with great
Newton's research convinced him that elaborate kingdoms and city life emerged only slowly after the Flood (dated by the
chronologer James Ussher at 2340 BCE), largely because the "course of nature," as evidenced by the primitive demography of his time, did not allow a suitable reproduction in the immediate postdiluvian period for a rapid repopulation, as many assumed.
(10) The Gentleman's and London Magazine; or, The Monthly
Chronologer, 54(?) vols.
See, for example, The London Magazine, and Monthly
Chronologer, June 1745: 296-7; Boyse, S., An Historical Review of the Transactions of Europe, From the Commencement of the War With Spain in 1739, to the Insurrection in Scotland in 1745 ...
Dillinghham was linked to Cromwell by the royalist newsbook Mercurius Bellicus as early as June 1647, when the newsbook called Dillingham "the
Chronologer [sic] of the mock States." Mercurius Bellicus, No.
Scaliger's greatest achievement may have been to reveal the painstaking discoveries of a third-century
chronologer, Eusebius of Gaesarea (in present-day Israel), compiled in two volumes.