Human Empire

Abstract

Genesis 1:28 (addressing Adam and Eve) and 9:1 (addressing Noah and his sons); 2 Samuel 24 (KJV). 2 Buchwald and Feingold, Newton and the Origin of Civilization, pp. 164-94; see also Paolo Rossi, The Dark Abyss of Time: The History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vico, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), pp. 121-92; Anthony T. Grafton, "Joseph Scaliger and Historical Chronology: The Rise and Fall of a Discipline," History and Theory 14:2 (1975), 156-85; Frank N. Egerton III, "The Longevity of the Patriarchs: A Topic in the History of Demography," Journal of the History of Ideas 27:4 (1966), 575-84. On the later use of political arithmetic in this context, see McCormick, "Political Arithmetic and Sacred History."