A Historian Named Gibbon 

A problem with dates.  Gibbon gets close also with a calculation.  “Forty-six years after the flight of Mahomet from Mecca, his disciples appeared in arms under the walls of Constantinople.”  622 is the beginning Islam.  668 is close but if you put 46 in an Islamic calendar  converter, you get 666.  

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