An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences

Released on by Increase Mather
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  • Author : Increase Mather
  • Release Date : 1977
  • Publisher : Academic Resources Corp
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 432
  • ISBN 13 :
  • File Size : 80,80 MB
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An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences by Increase Mather PDF Summary

Book Description: Providential explanations for "notable happenings" in Puritan history, such as cases of Indian captivity, shipwreck, natural disaster, & diabolic manifestations, possessions, & witchcraft. Essential to an understanding of Puritan society & culture in colonial America. The Essay is also one of America's earliest scientific works. Mather, shortly to become President of Harvard College, discusses magnetism, earthquakes, & medicine, with specific examples drawn from the New England experience, as in other accounts of the period, but differing from them in his "more scientific method, & in the devotion of some space to the exploding of superstition & the treatment of purely scientific subjects" (DAB). The book is still eminently & entirely readable, its vigorous & colloquial prose constantly equal to its extraordinary content.

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