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The first scientific American : Benjamin Franklin and the pursuit of genius / Joyce E. Chaplin.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating Q143.F8 C47 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chaplin, Joyce E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Franklin, Benjamin.
- Scientists--United States--Biography.
- Scientists.
- United States.
- Statesmen--United States--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 421 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [2006]
- Summary:
- Statesman, diplomat, Founding Father--Benjamin Franklin was all of these things, but, according to Chaplin, it is his status as a scientific genius that is the key to understanding him and his world. Illustrations.
- Contents:
- 1 Genius 1
- 2 Head and Hands 9
- 3 Man of Letters 39
- 4 Experiments and Observations 73
- 5 The Franklin Paradox 116
- 6 Distance 160
- 7 Wrecked 201
- 8 The Science of War 240
- 9 Final Accounts 293
- 10 Afterlife 336.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-404) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0465009557
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