the mid-1600s, James Ussher, Anglican Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of all Ireland, published a work that immediate and profound influence on people's view of Earths age Arespected scholar of the Bible, Ussher constructed a chronology of humall and Earth history in which he determined that Earth was only a few thousand years old, having been created in M004 Bo Ussher's treatise earned widespread acceptance among Europe's scien- tific and religious leaders, and hischronology was soonprinted in the margins of the Bible itself