The first scientific American : Benjamin Franklin and the pursuit of genius
Joyce E. Chaplin (Author)
"In this biography of America's most brilliant and cosmopolitan Founding Father, Joyce Chaplin considers all of Franklin's work in the sciences. Franklin was the first American whose "genius" for science qualified him as a genius in political affairs. It is only through grasping Franklin's full engagement with the sciences that we can understand this great Founder and the world he shaped."--Jacket
Biography
x, 421 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
9780465009558, 9780465009565, 0465009557, 0465009565
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Genius
Head and hands
Man of letters
Experiments and observations
The Franklin paradox
Distance
Wrecked
The science of war
Final accounts
Afterlife