Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather (; February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728) was a Puritan clergyman and author in colonial New England, who wrote extensively on theological, historical, and scientific subjects. After being educated at Harvard College, he joined his father Increase as minister of the Congregationalist Old North Meeting House in Boston, Massachusetts, where he preached for the rest of his life. He has been referred to as the "first American Evangelical".A major intellectual and public figure in English-speaking colonial America, Cotton Mather helped lead the successful revolt of 1689 against Sir Edmund Andros, the governor imposed on New England by King James II. Mather's subsequent involvement in the Salem witch trials of 1692–1693, which he defended in the book ''Wonders of the Invisible World'' (1693), attracted intense controversy in his own day and has negatively affected his historical reputation. As a historian of colonial New England, Mather is noted for his ''Magnalia Christi Americana'' (1702).
Personally and intellectually committed to the waning social and religious orders in New England, Cotton Mather unsuccessfully sought the presidency of Harvard College. After 1702, Cotton Mather clashed with Joseph Dudley, the governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, whom Mather attempted unsuccessfully to drive out of power. Mather championed the new Yale College as an intellectual bulwark of Puritanism in New England. He corresponded extensively with European intellectuals and received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Glasgow in 1710.
A promoter of the new experimental science in America, Cotton Mather carried out original research on plant hybridization. He also researched the variolation method of inoculation as a means of preventing smallpox contagion, which he learned about from an African-American slave who he owned, Onesimus. He dispatched many reports on scientific matters to the Royal Society of London, which elected him as a fellow in 1713. Mather's promotion of inoculation against smallpox caused violent controversy in Boston during the outbreak of 1721. Scientist and US founding father Benjamin Franklin, who as a young Bostonian had opposed the old Puritan order represented by Mather and participated in the anti-inoculation campaign, later described Mather's book ''Bonifacius'', or ''Essays to Do Good'' (1710) as a major influence on his life. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published 1702London, T. Parkhurst, 1702.7 pt. in 1 v. double map. 33 cm. -
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Published 1727Boston, D. Henchman, 1727.3 p. ̋., 221, [1] p. 19 cm. -
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Published 1693Bostun, John Dunton, 1693.2 p. ̋., [1]-98 (i.e. 106) p., 1 ̋. (sig. 2 ̋. not signed, A-E4, L-R2) 21 cm. -
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Published 1774New-York : Printed by Hodge and Shober, for Noel and Hazard, 1774.75 p. ; 17 cm. -
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Published 1719Boston, Printed by S. Kneeland, for B. Gray and J. Edwards, at their shops on the north and south side of the Town-house in King-street. 1719.[1] p. ̋., 46 p. 13 cm. -
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Published 1724Boston, Printed by B. Green for N. Belknap, 1724.1 p. ̋., x, xiv, 239, [5] p., 1 ̋. 18 cm. -
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Published 1721London, E. Matthews, 1721.vii, 304 p. 20 cm. -
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Published 1698London, S. Philips, 1698.iv, 135 p. 19 cm. -
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Published 1828Boston, Dutton & Wentworth, 1828.32 p. front. (facsim.) 22 cm. -
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Published 1896Boston, Club of Odd Volumes, 1896.13 p., 1 ̋., [2], 16 p., 2 ̋., [2], 20 p. 23 cm. -
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Published 1697London, Printed by S. Bridge for N. Hiller, 1697.110 p. -
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Published 1710Boston, Printed by B. Green for Samuel Gerrish, 1710.1 p. ̋., xviii, 19-206 p. 16 cm. -
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Published 1732Boston, Green, 1732.24 p. -
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Published 1719Boston: Printed by B. Green, for Edmund Negus, sold at his shop, 1719.[2], 37 p. 13 cm. -
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Published 1723Boston, Printed by T. Fleet, for John Phillips, 1723.2 p. l., 19 p. 18 cm. -
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Published 1703Boston, Printed by B. Green, & J. Allen, for Nicholas Boone, at his shop near the Old-Meeting-House, 1703.[1] p. ̋., 42 p. 14 cm. -
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Published 1783[N.p.] Printed in the year 1783.34 p. 18 cm. -
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Published 1857Boston, Congregational Board of Publication [introd. 1857]74 p. 18 cm. -
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Published 1721Boston, B. Green, 1721.94 p. (i.e. 120 p.) 16 cm. -
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Published 1690Boston, S. Green, 1690.62 (i.e. 64), 26 (i.e. 36), 5 p. 15 cm.