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Ben Franklin stilled the waves : an informal history of pouring oil on water with reflections on the ups and downs of scientific life in general by Charles Tanford
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Q 143 .F8 T36 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tanford, Charles, 1921-2009.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Knowledge--Science.
- Franklin, Benjamin.
- Molecules.
- Scientists--United States--Biography.
- Scientists.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 227 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1989.
- Contents:
- Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters
- The Reverend Mr. Farish
- Lords and Ladies and Even a Pediatrician
- The World Outside
- Connecting Threads
- Benjamin Franklin
- Gospel of St. Benjamin
- The First Fifty Years
- First Mission to London
- Ten Tempestuous Years
- Friends and Influences
- The London Scene
- The Club of Honest Whigs
- The French Connection
- Pliny the Elder
- Eighteenth-Century Science
- Apologia
- Newton's Legacy
- Ultimate Particles
- Distinction Between Atoms and Molecules
- Heat, Light, and Electricity
- Science and Mathematics
- Franklin's Experiment: The Observation
- Author's Comments
- Philosophical Letters
- Farish Fails a Lesson
- Franklin's Prologue
- Experiment at Clapham
- Subsequent Observations
- Trial at Sea
- How Small Is a Molecule? The Calculation Franklin Did Not Make
- A Layer One Molecule Thick
- Another Puzzle?
- Numbers Tell the Tale
- One Hundred Years Later. Science Comes of Age
- Heart of the Empire
- Science as Profession
- Molecular Dimensions
- Avogadro's Number
- Note on the Birth of Modern Physics
- Stilling Waves at Sea
- Lord Rayleigh
- Amateurs in Science
- Biographical Sketch. Physics as a Pleasure
- Why the Sky Is Blue, and Other Profound Matters
- Oil on Water on a Laboratory Scale
- Noblesse Oblige
- Meticulous Miss Pockels
- Comrades in the Search. The Flavor of Late Nineteenth-Century Physics
- Ben Franklin Wonders Why (Molecular Interpretation)
- In Praise of Water
- "Water is the Origin of All Things."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-221) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822308762 (alk. paper)
- 9780822308768 (alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 18560320
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