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Identifier: biblicaltables00osbo (find matches)
Title: Biblical tables
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Osborn, Henry S. (from old catalog)
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rial comprised in this work, hasbeen introduced, after many years of examinations and suggestions, from sources too numerousto be stated; but all is based upon, or modified by, the best and latest authorities. In the preparation of the money and coin table, the author was under obligation to Hon.James E. Snowden, formerly director of the United States Mint, at Philadelphia, and especiallyto William E. Dubois, Esq., assistant assayer, who furnished the assays, weights, and values ofseveral coins, including those of the shekel which was obtained from Constantinople and is inthe collection of the United States Mint. The author is indebted to Eev. Dr. Lyman Colemanfor valuable suggestions, and to many others in Europe, whose measurements and observationshave enabled him to obtain distances and positions to a great degree of accuracy; also toDr. Jessup, of Syria, and to other missionaries, for information and charts whereby severalimportant improvements have been made in the maps. Table I.
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BIBLICAL TABLES. FIRST TABLE. THE TRADITIONARY AGE. This table illustrates the history of the tra-ditionary AGE, or the history of those centuriesduring which nothing was committed to writing.It represents the time from the hirth of Adam tothe flood, an era of one thousand six hundred andfifty-six years. The alternate yellow and whiteSECTIONS indicate centuries, a fact common toall the tables of this historical series. The per-pendicular and broad black lines representthe lengths of the lives of the patriarchs andthey run through the century sections fromthe top of the table toward the lower part. TheLIGHT GREEN section at the bottom representsthe YEARS OF WARNING, one hundred and twentyin number, at the close of which commenced theFLOOD, the precise time of which is indicated bythat line on which the ark is seen to rest. REMAEKS. The broad black lines also indicate the ances-tral line of our Saviour. The great length ofindividual life anterior to the flood appears tohave been divinelbiblicaltables00osbo

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