Ingenious Dr. Franklin - Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin

Informationen zum Autor Nathan G. Goodman is the author of Benjamin Rush, Physician and Citizen, 1746-1813, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Klappentext "Dr. Franklin's own excited! uproariously witty reports to his family! his friends! and his scientific colleagues in Europe and America create an incomparable portrait of science in the eighteenth century. Reading these letters fosters a new affection fo Zusammenfassung Franklin's most entertaining speculative letters on a variety of subjects: the first balloon ascensions, electrocution, daylight saving, bifocal glasses, magic squares, his famous Kite and Stove, and so on.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Franklin, Nathan G. Goodman
• Assisted by: Nathan G Goodman (Editor), Nathan G. Goodman (Editor)
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1974
• EAN: 9780812210675
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1067-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Pennsylvania Paperbacks; Pennsylvania Paperbacks
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Anthologien (nicht Lyrik), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, HISTORY / United States / General, Biography / Autobiography, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General