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An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences

An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences PDF Author: Increase Mather
Publisher: Academic Resources Corp
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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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.