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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London : printed for J. Knapton at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1721
London : printed for J. Knapton at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1721
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[London: Francis Macpherson, 1836
[London: Francis Macpherson, 1836
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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; and Cornelius Crownfield, in Cambridge, 1717
The fifth edition.
London : printed for John Morphew; and Cornelius Crownfield, in Cambridge, 1717
The fifth edition.
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London : Printed by J.H. for H. Mortlock ..., 1693
London : Printed by J.H. for H. Mortlock ..., 1693
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London : Printed for John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall; and E. Curl, at the Dial and Bible against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street, 1713
The second edition.
London : Printed for John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall; and E. Curl, at the Dial and Bible against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street, 1713
The second edition.
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by Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742
London : printed by J. H. for Henry and George Mortlock at the Phoenix in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1713
London : printed by J. H. for Henry and George Mortlock at the Phoenix in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1713
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London : Printed by J.H. for Henry Mortlock ... and John Hartley ..., 1699
London : Printed by J.H. for Henry Mortlock ... and John Hartley ..., 1699
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by Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742
London : Printed by J.H. for Henry Mortlock, 1693
London : Printed by J.H. for Henry Mortlock, 1693
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[Dublin] : Printed at Cambridge for the benefit of the author, reprinted in London, and now reprinted in Dublin, by Geo. Faulkner, 1735
The third edition.
[Dublin] : Printed at Cambridge for the benefit of the author, reprinted in London, and now reprinted in Dublin, by Geo. Faulkner, 1735
The third edition.
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by Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742
Cambridge : printed at the University-press, for Cornelius Crownfield; and are to be sold by John Morphew, London, 1715
Cambridge : printed at the University-press, for Cornelius Crownfield; and are to be sold by John Morphew, London, 1715
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by Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742
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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by Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742
London : printed for John Morphew; and E. Curll, 1713
The third edition.
London : printed for John Morphew; and E. Curll, 1713
The third edition.
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by Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742
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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by Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742
Cambridge : printed by M. Fenner, for W. Thurlbourn, 1735
Cambridge : printed by M. Fenner, for W. Thurlbourn, 1735
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Cantabrigiæ : typis academicis. Impensis Cornelii Crownfield, 1713
Editio altera emendatior.
Cantabrigiæ : typis academicis. Impensis Cornelii Crownfield, 1713
Editio altera emendatior.
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London : printed by and for W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1777
London : printed by and for W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1777
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