"Cotton Mather." American Eras, Volume 2: The Colonial Era, 1600-1754. Gale Research, 1998.
Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com.ezp.mc.maricopa.edu/servlet/BioRC
The main purpose of the website is to introduce Cotton Mather and tell a little bit about his background. The website explains how he grew up and how his father was a leader of the scientific community. It talks about his beliefs in God and in the power of witchcraft. It explains how Mather believed in the work of God and the bible. Mather is important to the Puritan period because he had a scientific background due to his father and he later wrote about how disease resulted from sin. The writings of this author are critical to the understanding of this literary period because he spoke of disease and sin, and he believed a cure to disease was sometimes prayer. He used his religious beliefs when dealing with scientific diseases and he moved on to be a great scientist in his time. This is a credible website because it came directly from the MCC database.

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