The Intellectual World of Benjamin Franklin: An American Encyclopaedist at the University of Pennsylvania

By Dilys Pegler Winegrad and John Alan Scott

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812213262
• ISBN13: 9780812213263
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press / Arthur Ross Gallery
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.5" x 8.8"