The Intellectual World of Benjamin Franklin An American Encyclopaedist at the University of Pennsylvania |
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| Author:
| Winegrad, Dilys P. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8122-1326-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1990 |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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Carl Van Doren has said of Franklin: "He was more curious than ordinary men and followed up what they only looked at. . . . To warm his house, he thought of the lightning rod. Out of sympathy for his ailing brother he devised the catheter. . . . He had a vision . . . of an enormous universe of order and law."
This book presents Franklin's most important works together with art and artifacts relating to areas of knowledge that are his brainchildren.
Carl Van Doren has said of Franklin: "He was more curious than ordinary men and followed up what they only looked at. . . . To warm his house, he thought of the lightning rod. Out of sympathy for his ailing brother he devised the catheter. . . . He had a vision . . . of an enormous universe of order and law."
This book presents Franklin's most important works together with art and artifacts relating to areas of knowledge that are his brainchildren.