[Footnote i-45: _Ibid._, 7. In 1672 Harvard received her first telescope. Such men as Winthrop and Thomas Brattle were actively interested in science.] [Footnote i-46: F. Cajori, _The Teaching and History of Mathematics in the United States_, U. S. Bureau of Education, Circular of Information, No. 3, 1890 (Washington, D. C.), 22.] [Footnote i-47: Brasch, _op. cit._, 308.] [Footnote i-48: _Dictionary of American Biography_, VII, 591-2.] [Footnote i-49: _The Newtonian System of the World ..._ (Westminster, 1728), 30.] [Footnote i-50: _Ibid._, 6.] [Footnote i-51: See J. Quincy, _History of Harvard University_ (Boston, 1860 [1840]), II, 4-21.] [Footnote i-52: Jan. 12, 1727, Feb. 23, and others. Also see June 13 and July 11 of 1734.] [Footnote i-53: See advertisements in _Boston Gazette_, June 17-24, 1734, quoted in W. G. Bleyer's _Main Currents in the History of American Journalism_, 73-4.] [Footnote i-54: _Op. cit._, 25.] [Footnote i-55: _Literary Diary_, II, 334.] [Footnote i-56: Through the kindness of the Hollis family, Harvard (by 1764) gained a remarkable collection of scientific instruments, possessed the Boylean lectures, Transactions of the Royal Society and of the Academy of Science in Paris, the works of Boyle and Newton, "with a great variety of other mathematical and philosophical treatises" (Quincy, _op. cit._, II, 481). Notable among these items are Chambers's _Cyclopædia_, received in 1743, and Pemberton's _View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy_, in 1752.] [Footnote i-57: A. Bradford, _Memoir of the Life and Writings of Rev. Jonathan Mayhew ..._ (Boston, 1838), 18-9, 46.] [Footnote i-58: _Ibid._, 50.] [Footnote i-59: _Ibid._, 305. Mayhew is on record as saying: "The inspired scriptures are our only rule of faith and conduct" (_ibid._, 140).] [Footnote i-60: _Ibid._, 75. On the other hand, he reacts against what deism and orthodox rationalism commonly became: "A religion consisting in nothing but a knowledge of God's attributes, and an external conduct agreeable to his laws, would be a lifeless, insipid thing. It would be neither a source of happiness to ourselves, nor recommend us to the approbation of him, who requires us 'to give him our hearts.'"] [Footnote i-61: _Ibid._, 464.] [Footnote i-62: _Two Discourses Delivered Oct. 9th, 1760 ..._ (Boston, 1760), 66.] [Footnote i-63: _Election-Sermon_, May 27, 1747 (Boston, 1747), 9.] [Footnote i-64: _A Sermon_ [election], May 31, 1769 (Boston, 1769), 5.] [Footnote i-65: _Election-Sermon_, May 30, 1781 (Boston, 1781), 4.] [Footnote i-66: _Election-Sermon_, May 28, 1783 (Boston, 1783), 29.] [Footnote i-67: _Ibid._, 54.] [Footnote i-68: _Election-Sermon_, May 31, 1780 (Boston, 1780), 21.] [Footnote i-69: _Election-Sermon_, May 27, 1778 (Boston, 1778), 7.] [Footnote i-70: _Election-Sermon_, May 29, 1765 (Boston, 1765), 17.] [Footnote i-71: _Life of Ezra Stiles_ (Boston, 1798), _passim_; see especially pp. 34-54.]