Benjamin Franklin's Science
- List Price: $70.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
- Publish date: 05/01/1990
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Foreword by Brooke Hindle Preface Introduction Franklin's Scientific Style How Practical Was Franklin's Science? The Mysterious "Dr. Spence" Collinson's Gift and the New German Experiments The Kite, the Sentry Box, and the Lightning Rod Father Divi and the First European Lightning Rod (with Robert Schofield) Prejudice against the Introduction of Lightning Rods Heat and Color The Pennsylvania Hospital The Transit of Mercury Faraday and the "Newborn Baby" Supplement: The Franklin Stove (Samuel J. Edgerton, Jr.) Notes Index
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