Science in the American British colonies collection, 1672-1766.

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Science in the American British colonies collection, 1672-1766.

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Photocopies of letters relating to the establishment of the American Academy of Sciences, the study of astronomy, the presentation by John Winthrop of the first telescope in the colonies to Harvard College, and other scientific topics. Correspondents include William Avery, James Bowdoin, Robert Boyle, Thomas Brattle, John Canton, James Jurin, Increase Mather, Urian Oakes, Thomas Robie, Ezra Stiles, and John Winthrop.

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Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790

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Governor and public official from Massachusetts. From the description of James Bowdoin papers, 1785-1786. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980726 American politician, governor of Massachusetts, 1785-87; father of James Bowdoin, 1752-1811 From the guide to the James Bowdoin, Sr. letter to John Sullivan, 1786, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Stiles, Ezra, 1727-1795

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Congregational clergyman and librarian, of Newport, R.I.; and president of Yale University, New Haven, Conn. From the description of Ezra Stiles papers, 1682-1795. (New Haven Colony Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 368232945 Ezra Stiles, president of Yale College from 1778 to 1795. From the description of Ezra Stiles papers, [ca. 1727-1795]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81484808 From the description of Ezra Stiles papers, [ca. 1727-1795...

American Academy of Sciences

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Jurin, James, 1684-1750

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Epithet: the younger; MD; FRS British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000509.0x00001f Epithet: MD, Secretary of the Royal Society British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000509.0x00001d ...

Oakes, Urian, 1631-1681

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Colonial poet, clergyman and president of Harvard College, 1675-1681. From the description of Letter, 1678 July 13, Cambridge [Mass.] to Increase Mather, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 20690243 Urian Oakes (1631-1681) was a colonial poet, clergyman, and college president. He was a 1649 Harvard grauate who worked in England for several years before returning to Massachusetts to become pastor of the Church of Christ in Cambridge. Oakes was involved in a contro...

Brattle, Thomas, 1658-1713

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Merchant. From the description of Thomas Brattle papers, 1681-1708. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451303 Distinguished merchant of Boston. From the description of ANS : Boston, to Samuel Gray, 1788 Oct. 20. (Boston Public Library). WorldCat record id: 37766601 ...

Winthrop, John, 1606-1676

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Eldest son of John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was an avid chemist, practical scientist, and physician. Also governor of Connecticutt colony. From the description of Medical notebooks from the Winthrop papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1657-1669. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 136326566 Governor of Connecticut; eldest son of John Winthrop (1588-1649), first governor of Massachusetts Bay; after coming to Amer...

Harvard College (1636-1780)

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Samuel Mather (1677-1746) was a member of a prominent Connecticut family. He was born in Branford, Connecticut in 1677; his parents were the Reverend Samuel and Hannah (Treat) Mather. When Samuel was four, his family moved to Windsor, Connecticut. He attended Harvard College, receiving an A.B. in 1698 and an A.M. in 1701. He began studying medicine in 1698 and by 1702 he was admitted "to be a Practitioner of Physick and Chyrurgy." He was quickly successful, and in 1710 was appointed a surgeon to...

Canton, John, 1718-1772

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Epithet: of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000843.0x0001ce ...

Robie, Thomas, 1689-1729

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Thomas Robie (1688/89-1729) of Boston, Mass., was a 1708 Harvard graduate. A man of varied talents, Robie pursued several callings, including almanac-maker, Harvard library-keeper, preacher, mathematics and astronomy tutor, and physician. From the description of Diary, 1710. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 207167061 ...

Mather, Increase, 1639-1723

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"Increase Mather, the youngest son of the Reverend Richard Mather of Dorchester, and the father of Cotton Mather, has been described as the 'foremost American Puritan' of his generation. Teacher of the Second Church of Boston for more than fifty years, President of Harvard College from 1685 to 1701, agent for Massachusetts Bay in England to request the return of the Charter, and the author of approximately 175 books, pamphlets, prefaces and printed sermons, Mather was intimately involved in poli...

Avery, William, 1621?-1687

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Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691

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Boyle, British natural philosopher, chemist. Eton College, circa 1635-1638, traveled on continent and studied with private tutors, 1638-1644. He was greatly influenced by his readings of Bacon and Descartes. Became active participant and member "Invisible College, London, 1644 (predecessor of the Royal Society, 1662); established a laboratory, Oxford 1654; Director, East India Company; financed much missionary work including the printing of Bibles for the various British colonies; m...