Eliot Indian Bible
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The Eliot Indian Bible was the first translation of the Christian Bible into an indigenous American language, as well as the first Bible published in British North America. It was prepared by English
Algonquian Indian Bible title page 1663
Algonquian Indian Bible title page 1685
The English missionary John Eliot arrived in 1631 and sought to learn Algonquian in order to convert the Native Americans to Christianity.
Algonquian Indian Bible - Genesis 1 Old Testament first page of 1685 copy
Robert Boyle
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Robert Boyle was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of moder
Eliot Indian Bible
…and printing of Eliot's work was supported by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England, whose governor was the eminent scientist Robert Boyle. Printed sources have been produced in Spanish America since the sixteenth century. Stephen Daye of England contracted Jose Glover, a wealthy minister…
Portrait by Johann Kerseboom, 1689
Sculpture of a young boy, thought to be Boyle, on his parents' monument in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
One of Robert Boyle's notebooks (1690–1691) held by the Royal Society of London. The Royal Society archives holds 46 volumes of philosophical, scientific and theological papers by Boyle and seven volumes of his correspondence.
Plaque at the site of Boyle and Hooke's experiments in Oxford