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[–] TrialsAndTribulation ago 

So the idea that Plato lived and wrote 1800 years later than you previously thought he did, is just too much for your small mind to handle, therefore I am a crank.

No, you're a crank regardless of what I think. And yes, Hardouin was a crackpot. Newton's gift was in mathematics, reason, and observation. He spent the last decades of his life studying occult learning and alchemy and searching for the philosopher's stone. I wouldn't use him as the basis for any kind of authority outside of the science he pioneered.

I'd recommend actually reading some books rather than getting a facile and superficial education on Wikipedia. You know at the bottom of a Wikipedia page there's often something called "Bibliography". That's a list of sources, often in the form of books, the sort of thing I asked you to provide when we started this. Trying reading some. They're a lot better than the internet.

Lastly, If you can find someone reputable and credible who agrees with you, you might be on to something, but if you're a lone voice preaching your gospel, you're a crank and a nut and a kook, not to mention a half-assed, would-be manque scholar with pretensions of education.

Bye, kid.

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[–] TheSeer [S] ago 

Got it, Karamzin, Newton, Hardouin, Fomenko, all cranks, nut, kooks, and crackpots. You've read books, and never questioned chronology in the slightest. Chronology is a mathematical science. LOL at using that as some sort of criticism. Imagine if I used sources other than Wikipedia what you would have said. Did you ever get around to figuring out when BC/AD was popularized, crossbows came into regular use, and cement/concrete became commonly used?

If I read books, how exactly would that help convince you, unless you also had the same books at your disposal?

Interesting how there is all this interest in chronological sciences around 1700-1800, isn't it? Oh yeah, but I forgot, we know better, because we are another 220-300 years removed from events. Let me guess, you also think there was something called the Dark Ages!