 It has been called by Norman Fiering “the best surviving American example of student application of Ramist method to the whole body of human knowledge”.His work on the "Encyclopaidia "was interrupted when a donation of 800 books collected by Colonial Agent Jeremiah Dummer was sent to Yale late in 1714.He discovered Francis Bacon's "Advancement of Learning", the works of John Locke and Isaac Newton and other Enlightenment era authors not known to the tutors and graduates of Puritan Yale and Harvard.