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The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius - Softcover

Chaplin, Joyce

 
9780465009565: The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0465009565 ISBN 13: 9780465009565
Verlag: Perseus Books, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Famous, fascinating Benjamin Franklin-he would be neither without his accomplishments in science. In this authoritative intellectual biography of America's most brilliant and cosmopolitan Founding Father, Joyce Chaplin considers Franklin's scientific work as a career in its own right as well as the basis of his political thought. The famous kite and other experiments with electricity were only part of Franklin's accomplishments. He charted the Gulf Stream, made important observations in meteorology, and used the burgeoning science of "political arithmetic" to make unprecedented statements about America's power. Even as he stepped onto the world stage as an illustrious statesman and diplomat in the years leading up to the American Revolution, his fascination with nature was unrelenting.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joyce E. Chaplin is Professor of History at Harvard University. She is the author of two academic books: An Anxious Pursuit and Subject Matter. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Verlag
Perseus Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0465009565
ISBN 13 
9780465009565
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
432
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