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The first scientific American : Benjamin Franklin and the pursuit of genius /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chaplin, Joyce E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [2006]
Subjects:
Franklin, Benjamin, > 1706-1790.
Scientists > United States > Biography.
Statesmen > United States > Biography.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Genius
  • Head and hands
  • Man of letters
  • Experiments and observations
  • The Franklin paradox
  • Distance
  • Wrecked
  • The science of war
  • Final accounts
  • Afterlife.