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 by and for W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1777
London : printed by and for W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1777
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[Cambridge? : s.n., 1750
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London : printed by J. Heptinstall, for W. Innys, , 1717
London : printed by J. Heptinstall, for W. Innys, , 1717
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by Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742
Cambridge : printed for Cornelius Crownfield, 1725
The sixth edition.
Cambridge : printed for Cornelius Crownfield, 1725
The sixth edition.
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by Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742
Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1959
Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1959
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by Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742
London : printed for J. Knapton, 1721
London : printed for J. Knapton, 1721
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by Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742
London : printed by J. H. for Henry and George Mortlock, 1713
London : printed by J. H. for Henry and George Mortlock, 1713
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Cambridge : printed by J. Bentham, for W. Thurlbourn; and sold by Messieurs Knaptons, Manby, and Beecroft, in London, 1743
The eighth edition. With further additions ..
Cambridge : printed by J. Bentham, for W. Thurlbourn; and sold by Messieurs Knaptons, Manby, and Beecroft, in London, 1743
The eighth edition. With further additions ..
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by Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742
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 for John Morphew, and Cornelius Crownfield, in Cambridge, 1714
The fourth edition.
London : printed for John Morphew, and Cornelius Crownfield, in Cambridge, 1714
The fourth edition.
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by Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742
London : printed for J. and J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, D. Midwinter and A. Ward, A. Betesworth and C. Hitch [and 13 others in London], 1732
London : printed for J. and J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, D. Midwinter and A. Ward, A. Betesworth and C. Hitch [and 13 others in London], 1732
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by Bentley, Richard, D.D
London, 1729
London, 1729
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by Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742
Cambridge : printed for Cornelius Crownfield; and are to be sold by James Knapton and Robert Knaplock, London, 1724
The fifth edition. To which is now added a sermon preach'd .. July V. MDCXCVI. ..
Cambridge : printed for Cornelius Crownfield; and are to be sold by James Knapton and Robert Knaplock, London, 1724
The fifth edition. To which is now added a sermon preach'd .. July V. MDCXCVI. ..
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by Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742
[Cambridge] : Printed at Cambridge, and sold by L. G. in London, 1735
[Cambridge] : Printed at Cambridge, and sold by L. G. in London, 1735
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by Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742
London : printed for John Morphew, and Cornelius Crownfield, in Cambridge, 1716
The fifth edition.
London : printed for John Morphew, and Cornelius Crownfield, in Cambridge, 1716
The fifth edition.
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