The first scientific American : Benjamin Franklin and the pursuit of genius / Joyce E. Chaplin.

  • Chaplin, Joyce E.
Date:
[2006], ©2006
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

New York : Basic Books, [2006], ©2006.

Physical description

x, 421 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 25 cm

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Contents

Genius -- Head and hands -- Man of letters -- Experiments and observations -- The Franklin paradox -- Distance -- Wrecked -- The science of war -- Final accounts -- Afterlife.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-404) and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BZP (Franklin)
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ISBN

  • 0465009557