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 the Poition of the Heavens at this Time, with their Poition in that Age, we find that the Expedition of the Argonauts ought to be plac'd about nine hundred Years before Chrit, and not about fourteen hundred; and conequently that the World is not o old by five hundred Years as it was generally uppos'd to be. By this Calculation all the Æra's are drawn nearer, and the everal Events are found to have happen'd later than is computed. I don't know whether this ingenious Sytem will be favourably receiv'd; and whether thee Notions will prevail o far with the Learned, as to prompt them to reform the Chronology of the World. Perhaps thee Gentlemen would think it too great a Condecenion, to allow one and the ame Man the Glory of having improv'd natoral [sic] Philoophy, Geometry and Hitory. This would be a kind of univeral Monarchy, which the Principle of Self-Love that is in Man, will carce uffer him to indulge his Fellow-Creature; and, indeed, at the ame Time that ome