Seth Calvisius's Chronological Work, Continued to the Year 1685, to which is Prefixed a Chronological Introduction, and Appended an Appendix of Letters and Judgments concerning this Work

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Original title: Sethi Calvisii Opus chronologicum, ad annum 1685 continuatum, cui praemissa est Isagoge chronologica, et subjuncta appendix Epistolarum et Judiciorum de hoc opere A learned Latin chronological treatise joined to a universal annalistic chronicle. A didactic Isagoge chronologica supplies the technical instruments of time-reckoning — the distinction of astronomical from political time, tables and sexagesimal computation, eclipse and conjunction calculation, the chronological characters (dominical letter, golden number, indiction, solar and lunar cycles), and the reduction of the calendars and epochs of the nations (Julian, Olympiads, ab urbe condita, Nabonassar, Seleucid, Diocletianic, Hegira, Yazdegird, Armenian, Jewish sabbatical and jubilee cycles) to a common reckoning. The Opus proper then applies these instruments in a year-by-year chronicle from Creation through biblical, Greek, Roman, imperial, medieval and ecclesiastical history down to the early sixteenth century, testing received dates against computed eclipses, weekdays and consular lists, correcting earlier chronologers, exposing the forged antiquities of Annius of Viterbo, and disputing papal and Baronian chronology. The 1685 folio adds a continuation to that year, a bookseller's dedication to a duke of Saxony, a reprinted Leipzig rectoral funeral Programma serving as the author's vita, and an appendix of letters and judgments concerning the work. 👉 Read our introductory primer, full report, and finding guide here 📜 View the original source file This text was transcribed and translated as part of the ExLatinis project—an effort by Leo to make English translations of every published text in Latin in early modern Europe (between 1450 and 1750) available to the public for free online.

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