Comprehensive and accessible, this Companion addresses several well-known themes in the study of Franklin and his writings, while also showing Franklin in conversation with his British and European ...
Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy ... and meteorology as viable fields of study. The list of his inventions included: bifocals; the medical ...
Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy ... and meteorology as viable fields of study. The list of his inventions included: bifocals; the medical ...
In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...