Even for a Puritan, Cotton Mather showed extraordinary industriousness. The youngest student ever admitted to Harvard College, he published more than 450 books and pamphlets during his life. The works included histories, biographies, essays, sermons, and fables and concerned theology, philosophy, science, and medicine. Critics have praised the works generously,
Cotton Mather's father, Increase, also wrote many books, but did not come close to his son's record. Increase wrote just 130 books, though he contributed to more than sixty-five others. Samuel Mather, Cotton's son was even less productive. He wrote a mere twenty volumes.
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