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| 1630 births | |
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| 1675 deaths | |
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His epitaph in the Hancock Cemetery at Quincy , Norfolk County, Massachusetts reads ... ::''Leonard Hoar - died Nov.28,1675 in Boston a.45, and interred here Dec.6, new gs.'' He was not well liked by his students or apparently even the people of Massachusetts in part due to his radical religious views. In Daniel Munro Wilson , ''Where American Independence Began'' (1902), pp. 53–54, the author writes ... :"At all events the students fell away from the president, and 'set themselves to ''Travestie'' whatever he ''did'' and ''said'', and aggravate everything in his behavior disagreeable to them, with a design to make him Odious'." (Quoting from Cotton Mather 's '' Magnalia Christi Americana ''). :"He was forced to resign ... 'his grief threw him into a Consumption whereof he died November 28, 1675 in Boston'. (Cotton Mather)" Hoar was a contemporary and colleague of Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Robert Boyle : :"Rev. Dr. Leonard Hoar, the third president of Harvard, particularly illuminated a case in the interrelationship of science and religion. Hoar shaped his theology through methodical logic and broadened his knowledge of the developing sciences in England through friendships with Sir Robert Boyle and Sir Isaac Newton, a leading figure in the newly chartered Royal Society Of London for Improving Natural Knowledge. Thus, Hoar became part of the new world of science and scholarship." ''Science & Theology News''. {Link without Title} Judge . pp. 12, 22.
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