Cotton Mather | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-16

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00:00:35 1 Life and work
00:02:51 1.1 Boyle's influence on Mather
00:03:15 1.2 Increase Mather
00:03:53 1.3 Yale College
00:04:09 2 Salem witch trials of 1692, the Mather influence
00:04:20 2.1 Pre-trials
00:06:20 2.2 The court
00:08:13 2.3 Caution on the use of spectral evidence
00:13:35 2.4 Post-trials
00:15:25 2.5 Poole vs. Upham
00:18:07 2.6 The debate continues: Kittredge vs. Burr
00:21:10 2.7 20th century revision: The Kittredge lineage at Harvard
00:27:10 2.8 Tercentenary of the trials and ongoing scholarship
00:28:22 3 Smallpox inoculation controversy
00:29:13 3.1 Early New England
00:32:13 3.2 Inoculation debate
00:33:40 3.2.1 Medical opposition
00:35:27 3.2.2 Puritan resistance
00:37:18 3.2.3 Inoculation defended
00:39:27 3.3 The aftermath
00:40:00 4 Sermons against Pirates and Piracy
00:41:32 5 Works
00:42:31 5.1 iBoston Ephemeris/i
00:43:05 5.2 iThe Biblia Americana/i
00:43:55 5.3 iPillars of Salt/i
00:44:17 5.4 iMagnalia Christi Americana/i
00:45:15 5.5 iThe Christian Philosopher/i
00:46:10 6 Bibliography
00:46:58 7 See also
00:47:09 8 Notes
00:47:17 9 Sources
00:53:25 10 External links



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Cotton Mather  (February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728; A.B. 1678, Harvard College; A.M. 1681, honorary doctorate 1710, University of Glasgow) was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer. He left a scientific legacy due to his hybridization experiments and his promotion of inoculation for disease prevention, though he is most frequently remembered today for his involvement in the Salem witch trials. He was subsequently denied the presidency of Harvard College which his father, Increase Mather, had held.