Cotton Mather's Curiosa Americana, Scientific Letters to the Royal Society

A Critical Edition
Herausgeber: Smolinski, Reiner; Juchno, Andrew; Minkema, Kenneth P

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An abundantly rich and vivid resource for anyone interested in the flora, fauna, medicine and scientific knowledge in early colonial America.

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• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 762
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781914967078
• ISBN-10: 1914967070
• Artikelnr.: 73932526

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Edited by Reiner Smolinski, Kenneth P. Minkema and Andrew Juchno

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List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Curiosa Americana: General Introduction A Life in God
A Life in Science The Letters and Their Arrangement Series 1 (November 1712) Series 2 (December 1713-June 1714) Series 3 (July-September 1716) Series 4 (July 1717-January1717/18) Series 5 (February 1720) Series 6 (post-December 1
1721) Series 7 (May-August 1723) Series 8 (September-December 1724) "Curiosa Americana" Reception
Scholarly and Popular Mather's Library Mather's Published Sources Contemporary Oral and Scribal Sources Conclusion Chronology Note on the Text and Editorial Principles "Curiosa Americana" First Series 1.1. Describing 'Biblia Americana' & Giant Fossils. November 17
1712 1.2. On American Plants & Indian Cures. November 18
1712 1.3. On American Birds. November 19
1712 1.4. On Antipathies & the Force of the Imagination. November 20
1712 1.5. Monstrous Births. November 21
1712 1.6. Remedies Revealed in Dreams. November 22
1712 1.7. Remarkable Recoveries from Wounds. November 24
1712 1.8. Astronomical Observations. November 24
1712 1.9. Rainbows & Parhelia. November 25
1712 1.10. Joseph Beacon's Vision or Dream. November 26
1712 1.11. On the Rattlesnake. November 27
1712 1.12. Thunder & Lightning. November 28
1712 1.13. Cases of Longevity & Fruitfulness. November 29
1712 Second Series 2.1. A Woollen Snow. December 1
1713 2.2. Surprising Influences of the Moon. 1714 2.3. A Monster. June 21
1714 2.4. Containing the Description of the Moose Deere. June 21
1714 2.5. The Pigeons. June 1714 2.6. Long Fasting. June 1714 2.7. A Strange Sisterhood. June 1714 2.8. Uncommon Ideots. June 1714 2.9. An Unusual Discharge. June 1714 2.10. An Ear Strangely Molested. June 1714 Third Series 3.1. Monstrous Impregnations. July 2
1716 3.2. A Monstrous Calf. July 3
1716 3.3. The Nidification of Pigeons. July 4
1716 3.4. A Triton. July 5
1716 3.5. A Serpent Securely Handled. July 6
1716 3.6. A Strange Mischief to the Eyes. July 7
1716 3.7. Strength of Imagination. July 9
1716 3.8. The Stone Mistaken. July 10
1716 3.10. Curiosities of the Small Pox. July 12
1716 3.11. The Fagiana. July 13
1716 3.12. Curiosa Botanica. September 24
1716 3.13. A Singular Limestone. September 24
1716 Fourth Series 4.1. Fossils. July 25
1717 4.2. An Eclipse Observed. October 1
1717 4.3. An horrid Snow. December 10
1717 4.4. A Prodigious Worm. December 12
1716 or January 12
1717 Fifth Series 5.2. The Quadrature of the Circle. February 1720 5.3. The Whale. February 1720 5.9. A Water-Dove. February 1720 5.10. The Locusts. February 1720 5.11. A Voice from Heaven. The Aurora Borealis. February 1720 5.13. The World Alarum'd. A Surprizing Relation
Of a New Burning-Island. June 10
1721 Sixth Series 6.1. An Account of the Method & Success of Inoculating the Small-Pox
in Boston in New-England. September 7
1721 6.2. Variolæ triumphatæ: or
The Small-Pox Inoculated. 1721 6.3. A Further Account
of the Method and Success of the Small-Pox Inoculated. 1721 6.4. Curiosa Variolarum. March 10
1721/22 6.5. Nishmath-Chajim; The Probable Seat and General Cure of all Diseases. 1721 6.6. The Seventh Son Examined; with a Touch Upon the Kings Evil. 1721 6.11. Ambergrise discovered and determined. 1721 Seventh Series 7.0. Letter to Dr. James Jurin
May 21
1723 7.1. The Case of the Small-pox Inoculated
further cleared. May 21
1723 7.2. A Monstrous Dragon. June 3
1723 7.3. A New Rattlesnake. June 4
1723 7.4. Carcharias Mirabilis. June 5
1723 7.5. Mysterious Rains. June 6
1723 7.6. The Land Sail'd Upon. June 7
1723 7.7. Subterranea. June 8
1723 7.8. A Singular Case. June 10
1723 7.9. Letter of Introduction for Isaac Greenwood. June 10
1723 7.10. Letter of Introduction for John Perkins. August 3
1723 Eighth Series 8.1. Climatical Influences. October 1
1724 8.2. An Amphisbæna. September 21
1724 8.3. An Unusual Vomit. September 22
1724 8.4. A Tide & Storm of Uncommon Circumstances. September 23
1724 8.5. A Moveable Rock. September 24
1724 8.6. A New-found-Land. September 25
1724 8.7. More and Strange Effects of Thunder. September 26
1724 8.8. A Rare Discharge of Bullets. September 28
1724 8.9. Nature at Work with a Needle. September 29
1724 8.10. Uncommon Dentition. September 30
1724 8.11. Angel of Bethesda Advertisement. October 5
1724 8.12. Introduction for Zabdiel Boylston. December 15
1724 Appendices 1. Manuscript Descriptions and Locations 2. Cotton Mather to Richard Waller
December 1
1712 3. Richard Waller to Cotton Mather
July 22
1713 4. Richard Waller to Cotton Mather
December 23
1713 5. Richard Waller
Notes on Curiosa
First Series 6. An Extract of several Letters from Cotton Mather
D.D. to John Woodward
M.D. and Richard Waller
June 30
1714 7. Cotton Mather to Richard Waller
March 10
1715 8. John Woodward to Cotton Mather
April 3
1721 9. James Jurin to Cotton Mather
December 16
1723 10. James Jurin to Cotton Mather
February 22
1723/24 11. James Jurin to Cotton Mather
May 20
1726 12. Cotton Mather to John Woodward
undated (c. July 1716) Bibliography Index