Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley FRS (; 27 January 1662 – 14 July 1742) was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. Considered the "founder of historical philology", Bentley is widely credited with establishing the English school of Hellenism. In 1892, A. E. Housman called Bentley "the greatest scholar that England or perhaps that Europe ever bred".Bentley's ''Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris'', published in 1699, proved that the letters in question, supposedly written in the 6th century BCE by the Sicilian tyrant Phalaris, were actually a forgery produced by a Greek sophist in the 2nd century CE. Bentley's investigation of the subject is still regarded as a landmark of textual criticism. He also showed that the sound represented in transcriptions of some Greek dialects by the letter digamma appeared also in Homeric poetry, even though it was not represented there in writing by any letter.
Bentley became Master of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1700. His autocratic manner and contemptuous treatment of the college fellows led to extensive controversy and litigation, but he remained in that post until his death, more than four decades later. In 1717 Bentley was appointed as the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. As professor at Cambridge, Bentley introduced the first competitive written examinations in a Western university.
A fellow of the Royal Society, Bentley was interested in natural theology and the new physical sciences, subjects on which he corresponded with Isaac Newton. Bentley was in charge of the second edition of Newton's ''Principia Mathematica'', although he delegated most of the scientific work involved to his pupil Roger Cotes. Provided by Wikipedia
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Berlin : S. Calvary, 1874
Berlin : S. Calvary, 1874
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[London] : [F. Macpherson], 1836
[London] : [F. Macpherson], 1836
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Cambridge [Eng.] : Printed by J. Bentham for W. Thurlbourn; and sold by Knaptons, Manby, and Beecroft, London, 1743
The eighth edition
Cambridge [Eng.] : Printed by J. Bentham for W. Thurlbourn; and sold by Knaptons, Manby, and Beecroft, London, 1743
The eighth edition
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London : Printed for John Morphew, 1713
London : Printed for John Morphew, 1713
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London : printed for W. Thurlbourn at Cambridge, and sold by Messieurs Knaptons, Innys and Manby, Rivington, Birt, and Clay; booksellers in London, 1737
The seventh edition with large additions.
London : printed for W. Thurlbourn at Cambridge, and sold by Messieurs Knaptons, Innys and Manby, Rivington, Birt, and Clay; booksellers in London, 1737
The seventh edition with large additions.
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Cambridge : Printed by J. Bentham Printer to the University, for W. Thurlbourn bookseller in Cambridge; and sold by Messieurs Knaptons, Manby, and Beecroft, in London, 1743
Cambridge : Printed by J. Bentham Printer to the University, for W. Thurlbourn bookseller in Cambridge; and sold by Messieurs Knaptons, Manby, and Beecroft, in London, 1743
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London : Printed for Tho. Parkhurst ... and H. Mortlock ..., 1692
London : Printed for Tho. Parkhurst ... and H. Mortlock ..., 1692
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London : printed for John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall; and E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet street, 1713
The third edition.
London : printed for John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall; and E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet street, 1713
The third edition.
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London : printed for J. and J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, D. Midwinter and A. Ward, A. Betesworth and C. Hitch, G. Strahan, J. Osborne and T. Longman, J. Pemberton, F. Fayram and T. Hatchet, C. Rivington, J. Barley, J. Brotherton, F. Giles, R. Williamson, J. Stagg, T. Osborne, L. Gilliver, and F. Coggan, 1732
London : printed for J. and J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, D. Midwinter and A. Ward, A. Betesworth and C. Hitch, G. Strahan, J. Osborne and T. Longman, J. Pemberton, F. Fayram and T. Hatchet, C. Rivington, J. Barley, J. Brotherton, F. Giles, R. Williamson, J. Stagg, T. Osborne, L. Gilliver, and F. Coggan, 1732
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[Cambridge : s.n., 1720
[Cambridge : s.n., 1720
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London : Printed for Tho. Parkhurst ... and H. Mortlock ..., 1692
London : Printed for Tho. Parkhurst ... and H. Mortlock ..., 1692
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London : Printed by J.H. for Henry Mortlock ..., 1696
London : Printed by J.H. for Henry Mortlock ..., 1696
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[Toronto] : University of Toronto Press, 1962
[Toronto] : University of Toronto Press, 1962
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London : Printed by J. Leake, for Peter Buck, 1697
London : Printed by J. Leake, for Peter Buck, 1697
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Cambridge : printed at the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield Printer to the University; and are to be sold by John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall, London, 1715
Cambridge : printed at the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield Printer to the University; and are to be sold by John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall, London, 1715
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[England? : s.n., 1732
[England? : s.n., 1732
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[London : s.n., 1697
[London : s.n., 1697
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London : Printed for H. Mortlock ..., 1693
London : Printed for H. Mortlock ..., 1693
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