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Ingenious Dr. Franklin: Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin

Ingenious Dr. Franklin: Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin

Goodman, Nathan G.

Paperback

Series: Pennsylvania Paperbacks

Biographies GeneralFiction AnthologiesRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

ISBN10: 0812210670
ISBN13: 9780812210675
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Oct 1 1974
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.28
Language: English

An outstanding collection of Benjamin Franklin's scientific correspondence, The Ingenious Dr. Franklin has long been unavailable yet deserves a place beside his Autobiography as essential reading for everyone interested in history, wit, and invention. Portioned into three sections, Practical Schemes and Suggestions, Diverse Experiments and Observations, and Scientific Deductions and Conjectures, these letters discuss an extraordinary range of topics, including the art of procuring pleasant dreams, choosing eye glasses, the first human flight, the character of clouds, the behavior of oil and water, smallpox and cancer, the cause of colds, charting the Gulf Stream, and prehistoric animals of the Ohio.

Culled from ponderous volumes of collected works or private collections, these engaging and unabridged letters were assembled to allow readers to discover for themselves Benjamin Franklin's vigorous personality, his humanity, and his penetrating intelligence.

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