The use of astronomy in history and chronology exemplified in an inquiry into the fall of the stone into the Aegospotamos; said to have been foretold by Anaxagoras. In which is attempted to be shewn, that Anaxagoras did not foretell the fall of that stone; but the solar eclipse in the first year of the Peloponnesian War. That what he saw was a comet at the time of the battle of Salamis: and that this battle was probably fought the year before Christ 478; or two years later than it is commonly fixed by chronologers

People / Organizations

• George Costard (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, against Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn, Printers to the Royal Society, MDCCLXIV. [1764]

Publication year

1764

ESTC No.

T144651

Grub Street ID

191488

Description

[4],37,[1]p. ; 4°.

Note

Dedication signed: G. Costard

Printed by William Bowyer; his records show 250 copies printed.