Larry Gragg highlights Mather ’ s cloudy thinking and confusion between sympathy for the possessed, and the boundlessness of spectral evidence when Mather stated, “ the devil have sometimes represented the shapes of persons not only innocent, but also the very virtuous .” And writing in the early 1980s, John Demos seemed to consider Mather a moderating influence on the trials.

The whole process, including axial and radial phases, may last, for the Mather DPF, a few microseconds ( for a small focus ) to 10 microseconds ( for a large focus ).

Mather set the moral tone in the colonies, and sounded the call for second-and third-generation Puritans, whose parents had left England for the New England colonies of North America, to return to the theological roots of Puritanism.

In 1706 a slave, Onesimus, explained to Cotton Mather how he had been inoculated as a child in Africa.

By July 1716, Mather had read an endorsement of inoculation by Dr. Emanuel Timonius of Constantinople in the Philosophical Transactions.

The only reason Cotton Mather had success in it, he said, was because Mather had used it on children, who are naturally more resilient.

According to Bancroft, Mather had been influential in gaining politically unpopular Stoughton his appointment as lieutenant governor under Phips by appealing to his politically powerful father, Increase Mather.

“ Intercession had been made by Cotton Mather for the advancement of William Stoughton, a man of cold affections, proud, self-willed and covetous of distinction .” Apparently Mather saw in Stoughton an ally for church-related matters.

Mather somewhat clarified the contradictory advice he had given in Return of the Several Ministers, by defending the use of spectral evidence.

In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.

After others had lamented the roles they played in the executions of nineteen and imprisonment of hundreds, Mather remained the chief defender of the trials, which diminishes the view of him as a moderate influence.

Rosenthal suggests that Mather might have had guilty feelings — feigned or not — for choosing not to restrain the judges during the trial, though he was in the best position to do so.

This was particularly important because it shows that Cotton Mather had influence in mathematics during the time of Puritan New England.

It also included “ information such as weather forecasts, farmers ' planting dates, astronomical information, and tide tables, Astronomical data and various statistics, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, lists of all types, timelines, and more .” Mather had within the text of the Almanac the positions and motions of these celestial bodies, which he must have calculated by hand.

When Cotton Mather died, he had an abundance of unfinished writings left behind, including one entitled The Biblia Americana.

Mather believed that Biblia Americana was the best thing he had ever written, believing it to be his masterwork ( Hovey 533 ).

Mather, a prominent Boston minister, had heard a description of the African practice of inoculation from his Sudanese slave, Onesimus, in 1706, but had been previously unable to convince local physicians to attempt the procedure.

The practice had been known in Boston since 1706, when Cotton Mather ( of Salem witch trial fame ) discovered that his slave, Onesimus had been inoculated while still in Africa and that many slaves imported to Boston had also received inoculations.

Cotton Mather's relationship with his well-known father, Increase Mather, is thought by some to have been a strained and difficult one.

An opinion on the matter was sought from the most esteemed ministers of the area and Cotton Mather took credit for their response when anonymously celebrating himself years later: " drawn up at their desire, by Cotton Mather the younger, as I have been informed.

Through grants from federal, state and private entities, the college has been able to improve the energy-efficiency of the Dining Hall, Dalrymple, Mather and the Admissions building since 2008, with plans to work on student residences in the future.

In its final life, Mills Station has been restored as a community center at the Mather Field / Mills Light Rail Station approximately 1000 feet from its original location.

Mather illustrates how the Goodwins ' eldest child had been tempted by the devil and stole linen from the washerwoman Mary Glover.

September 20, Cotton Mather wrote to Stephen Sewall, the clerk of the court: " That I may be the more capable to assist in lifting up a standard against the infernal enemy ..." requesting "... a narrative of the evidence given in at the trials of half a dozen, or if you please, a dozen, of the principal witches that have been condemned.

Two of the survivors from the Whydah-a carpenter named Thomas Davis, and another man also named Thomas, who had been pressed into service when their ships were captured by Bellamy-was captured by authorities and brought to trial ; however, possibly in part due to the intervention of the famous Puritan minister Cotton Mather, they were acquitted of all charges and spared the gallows.

The poem has appealed to twentieth century composers and has been set to music by Frederic Austin for chorus and orchestra ( first performance, Leeds Festival, 1931 ); by Timothy Mather Spelman, for soprano and baritone solo, chorus and orchestra ( 1931 ); by Virgil Thompson as " The Feast of Love ", for baritone and chamber orchestra, text translated by himself ( 1964 ); and by George Lloyd for soprano, tenor, chorus, and orchestra ( 1980 ).

Although Mather described these as deeply cut, a statement which has been repeated to the present day, early reports suggested that this was not exactly the case.

It has been attended by P. Chidambaram, Kiran Bedi, H. C. Verma, Mike Fincke, John C. Mather and others.

Cotton Mather wrote of Leverett that he was " one to whom the affections of the freemen were signalised his quick advances through the lesser stages of honor and office, unto the highest in the country ; and one whose courage had been as much recommended by martial actions abroad in his younger years, as his wisdom and justice were now at home in his elder.

His rule did not begin auspiciously, since a number of Massachusetts magistrates who had been named to his council refused to serve, and he was unable to reconcile with Increase Mather, who refused to see him.

This epitaph on Wigglesworth's grave has been attributed to Cotton Mather:

I didn't see the band going anywhere and I was yearning to become more involved with seriously constructed pop music "-Darryl Mather The band however reformed again a few months later, with Blood, Jakimszyn and two new members-Tony Bambach ( bass ) and Richard Lawson ( drums ), both from another Sydney band, The Most, who had been the Lime Spider's main rival in the 1982 ' Battle of the Bands ' competition.

Mather, who had been appointed the first director of the National Park Service, began to display apparent mental illness in 1917.

* David Ogilvy ( 1929 –) Iconic advertisement guru ; known as the ' Pope of Advertising ', he founded Ogilvy & Mather

Mather was founded by Alonzo C. Mather ; the company's first stock car was built in 1880.

Ogilvy & Mather was founded in 1948 by David Ogilvy, as " Hewitt, Ogilvy, Benson, & Mather " in Manhattan with a staff of two and no clients.

* The Mather School, Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1905

Named for the philanthropist wife of prominent industrialist Samuel Mather and sister-in-law of the famous statesman John Hay, the Flora Stone Mather Quad is home to Weatherhead School of Management, School of Law, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, and many departments of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Dorchester is the birthplace of the first public elementary school in America, the Mather School, established in 1639.

* The Mather Elementary School, Pre School-5

* American: the collection includes early American portraiture by James Peale and Mather Brown ; many works by painters of the Hudson River School, realist works by Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, and works by the American impressionists Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase

Buildings on the Brayford now include a School of Architecture designed by Rick Mather, a science laboratory facility, a sports centre, and a university library.

He attended Mather High School and then earned his bachelor in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and co-founded two companies that made Internet-tools, NetMeridian Software and SponsorNet New Media.

" This was the flaxen-haired blue-eyed William Ernest Mather ( 1877 – 99 )-second son of Sir William Mather-a pupil of his at Rydal Mount School 1888-90, who died young after being thrown from his horse A photograph of Nicholson with Ernest, taken at Llandudno in June 1889, was published in The Book Collector ( Summer 1978 ).

Mather was educated at Paisley Grammar School and Greenock High School before attending the University of Glasgow.

Mather was educated at the private Boys ' High School in San Francisco, and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1887.

The Marine Aerial Navigation School was stationed at Mather AFB, until that base was closed under the BRAC, upon which time it was moved to Randolph AFB.

He had his first lessons in drawing and watercolor while attending The Mather School, but his parents took little notice of his nascent talent.

Mather learned to fly in 1914 at the Curtiss Flying School in Hammondsport, New York, and became an instructor there at the age of 20.

The Marine Aerial Navigation School ( MANS ) also relocated to Mather in order to train enlisted USMC and USCG navigators for Marine Corps KC-130 and Coast Guard HC-130 aircraft.

* Army Air Force Bombardier School, Mather AAF Base

Stephen Tyng Mather High School is a public secondary school located in the West Ridge neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

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He and his family settled in Chicago, where he attended and played boys soccer, at Mather High School, which he led to the Chicago Public League championship his senior year.