This blog attempts to collate various materials in connection with the year 1735.
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20211215

Sermon published by John Brine


A sermon preached to deacons by the Hyper-Calvinist John Brine appeared that year. London minister Brine lived 1703-1765

20110210

Johannes Scheuchzer

1735 saw the publication of a 4 volume work by Johannes Jacob Scheuchzer entitled Physica Sacra. Christie's describes it thus
'In Scheuchzer's gigantic work, Physica Sacra, the Baroque attains, philosophically as well as artistically, its high point and its conclusion' (Faber du Faur, German Baroque Literature, p. 472). Scheuchzer, a doctor and natural scientist from Zurich, planned the Physica sacra as an explanation of and a commentary on the Bible on natural-scientific grounds. He himself oversaw the illustrations which were largely based on his own natural history cabinet or on other famous European cabinets of rare specimens...'

20080424

Franklin and morality


On April 10, 1735, Benjamin Franklin published his Dialogue between two Presbyterians after a Presbyterian synod in Philadelphia had brought charges against a young preacher named Samuel Hemphill. See here. it is an argument for morality over faith.

20080204

Book on criminals


This title first appeared in 1735.
LIVES OF THE MOST REMARKABLE CRIMINALS
Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
Collected from Original Papers and Authentic Memoirs, and Published in 1735
EDITED BY ARTHUR L. HAYWARD
This book can be seen here or here.

20070626

The Library



This illustration was the frontispiece to a book published in Leipzig in 1735

20070619

Greek New Testament

Greek NT of 1735

20070607

Hebrew Grammar

This is the title page to the first Hebrew Grammar published in America. It is by a convert to Christianity called Judah Monis.

Don Quixote


A 1735 edition of Cervantes' 1605 Spanish classic Don Quixote