"Newton was probably one of the greatest historians who ever lived."
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Sir Isaac Newton? The gravity guy? He spend most of his time studying alchemy. He was a crackpot who had one brilliant moment that revolutionized physics and didn't even seem to realize it himself. To be honest can't remember ever hearing before now that Newton was a great historian.
"What about the the chronicle of the abbey of Corbie?"
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Know very little of it. Not currently in a position to study it's contents. Only mentions of it's contents concerning the Waldenses I've found on the internet were on the sort of sites I've learned not to trust.
I think you are all being abit unfair to Newton. He was an absolute genius, coming up not only with calculus but also many of the laws of physics. Who else worked out that if you go fast enough you can 'fall' continuously around the earth? Alchemy is now a fact...we can convert elements into gold....it just costs more to remove protons then the gold is worth.
As a historian Newton was one of the first, if not the first, to use astonomical events like meteors and eclipses to date ancient events. His work on Daniel and Revelation is excellent....a classic historicist work, and not at all comparable to the dispensational fiction of Tim LaHaye. He had a good knowledge of the ancient languages, and in his 'Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended' he collapsed the chronology of Egypt and revised the chronology of the ancient world in a way which historians and archaeologists are only now beginning to see (Peter James, David Rohl, Immanuel Velikovsky, Donovon Courville etc). In my opinion, he was probably the biggest genius ever to have lived.
Dean