Benjamin Franklin's Science

by I. Bernard Cohen

Book Overview

Benjamin Franklin is well known to most of us, yet his fundamental and wide-ranging contributions to science are still not adequately understood. Until now he has usually been incorrectly regarded as a practical inventor and tinkerer rather than a scientific thinker. He was elected to membership in the elite Royal Society because his experiments and original theory of electricity had made a science of that new subject. His popular fame came from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674066596
• ISBN13: 9780674066595
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"