Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams and Madison

by I. Bernard Cohen

Book Overview

Thomas Jefferson was the only president who could read and understand Newton's Principia. Benjamin Franklin is credited with establishing the science of electricity. John Adams had the finest... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393035018
• ISBN13: 9780393035018
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"