“It is an agreed Point, that as Chronology is the Eye, the Light, the Life and Soul of History; so Astronomy is the Eye, the Light, the Life, and Soul of Chronology.’
– John Kennedy (1753)
“The position of chronology as at the Middle Ages has been tersely put by the learned compilers of Le Grand Dictionnaire Universal. ‘Chronology’, they declare, ‘as a sc…