Who was known for his promotion of inoculation for disease prevention and owned the slave Onesimus?
Cotton Mather Cotton Mather, FRS (February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728; A.B. 1678, Harvard College; A.M. 1681, honorary doctorate 1710, University of Glasgow) was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer. He left a scientific legacy due to his hybridization experiments and his promotion of inoculation for disease prevention, though he is most frequently remembered today for his vigorous support for the Salem witch trials. He was subsequently denied the Presidency of Harvard College which his father, Increase Mather, had held.
Polyaenus Polyaenus or Polyenus ( ; see ae (æ) vs. e; Greek: Πoλύαινoς , "Polyainos", "much-praised") was a 2nd-century Macedonian author, known best for his "Stratagems in War" (in Greek, Στρατηγήματα), which has been preserved. The "Suda" calls him a rhetorician, and Polyaenus himself writes that he was accustomed to plead causes before the emperor. Polyaenus dedicated "Stratagems in War" to the two emperors Marcus Aurelius (161–180 CE) and Verus (161–169 CE), while they were engaged in the Parthian war (162–165 CE), about 163 CE, at which time he was too old to accompany them in their campaigns.