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The First Scientific American
Joyce E. Chaplin

The First Scientific American

Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius

Basic Books (Apr 30, 2006)
9780465009558
| Hardcover
421 pages | 163 x 236 mm | USA | English
$ 27.50 | Value: $ 27.50
Dewey 509.2
LC Classification Q143.F8 .C47 2006
LC Control No. 2006000125

Genre

  • History

Subject

  • American History
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Science

Plot

"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."--BOOK JACKET.