Cotton Mather
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1663
- Died
- 1728
- Works
- 581
Top works
- Agricola, or, The religious husbandman
- The comfortable chambers, opened and visited, upon the departure of that aged and faithful servant of God, Mr. Peter Thatcher, the never-to-be-forgotten pastor of Milton
- A monitor for communicants
- The city of refuge
- Marcelli Malpighii ... Dissertatio epistolica de formatione pulli in ovo
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Cotton Mather was a powerpop band from Austin, Texas formed in 1991. With their strong vocal harmonies and accessible melodies, they have drawn comparisons to the Beatles, Squeeze, and Guided By Voices. In his 2007 book, Shake Some Action, John Borack rated the Kon Tiki album at number 26 of his Top 200 Power Pop Albums of all time, comparing the album to Revolver-era The Beatles, Big Star, and The Apples in Stereo. Rise to Popularity Oasis guitarist and songwriter Noel Gallagher got a copy of
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine
· 2020 · cited 14,064x
- The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 9,162x
- THE WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER (WISE): MISSION DESCRIPTION AND INITIAL ON-ORBIT PERFORMANCE
· 2010 · cited 7,215x
- The NRAO VLA Sky Survey
· 1998 · cited 4,837x
- Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes with Empagliflozin in Heart Failure
· 2020 · cited 4,518x
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Quotes
- “Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.”
- “The Natives of the Country now Possessed by the New-Englanders, had been forlorn and wretched Heathen ever since their first herding there; and tho' we know not When or How those Indians first became Inhabitants of this mighty Continent, yet we may guess that probably the Devil decoy'd those miserable Salvages hither, in hopes that the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ would never come here to destroy or disturb his Absolute Empire over them.”
- “If in the midst of the many Dissatisfaction among us, the publication of these Trials may promote such a pious Thankfulness unto God, for Justice being so far executed among us, I shall Re-joyce that God is Glorified...”
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Key facts
- Born
- February 12, 1663, Boston , Massachusetts Bay Colony , British America
- Died
- February 15, 1728 (aged 65), Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay , British America
- Resting place
- Copp's Hill Burying Ground , Boston
- Education
- Harvard College ( AB , 1678; MA , 1681)
- Occupations
- Minister writer
- Parents
- Increase Mather Maria Cotton
- Relatives
- John Cotton (maternal grandfather), Richard Mather (paternal grandfather), Albert D. Mather (descendant)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Place of birth
- Boston
- Place of death
- Boston
- Father
- Increase Mather
- Educated at
- Boston Latin School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- Christian minister
- Image
- Cotton Mather.jpg
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- name in native language
- Cotton Mather
- Commons category
- Cotton Mather
- date of birth
- 1663-02-12
- date of death
- 1728-01-01
- member of
- Royal Society
- place of burial
- Copp's Hill Burying Ground
- writing language
- English language
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P12749
- Barbara Meier
- archives at
- New York Public Library Main Branch
- Commons Creator page
- Cotton Mather
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Cotton Mather, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Cotton Mather (/ˈmæðər/; February 12, 1663 – February 15, 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 Mather as minister of the Congregationalist Old North Meeting House in Boston, then part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 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 of New England appointed 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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cotton Mather” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.