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<p><P>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 lame came from his two lightning experiments the sentry—box experiment and the later and more famous experiment of the kite—which confirmed his theoretical speculations about the identity of electricity and provided a basis for the practical invention of the lightning rod. Franklin advanced the eighteenth-century understanding of all phenomena of electricity and provided a model for experimental science in general.<P>I. Bernard Cohen, an eminent historian of science and the principal elucidator of Franklin's scientific work, examines his activities in fields ranging from heat to astronomy. He provides masterful accounts of the theoretical background of Franklin's science (especially his study of Newton), the experiments he performed,
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- Author
- I. Bernard Cohen
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674066588
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Memoir, Mathematics
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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