At the Instance of Benjamin Franklin
Author | : Edwin Wolf |
Publisher | : The Library Company of Phil |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780914076735 |
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Author | : Edwin Wolf |
Publisher | : The Library Company of Phil |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780914076735 |
Author | : Edwin Wolf |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780914076902 |
Author | : Jonathan Lyons |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-06-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1608195724 |
A spellbinding, rich history of the American Enlightenment-think 1776 meets The Metaphysical Club.
Author | : Benjamin Franklin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 1840 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Benjamin Franklin |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 2006-01-03 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1440626928 |
It takes a very inclusive anthology to encompass the protean personality and range of interests of Benjamin Franklin, but The Portable Benjamin Franklin succeeds as no collection has. In addition to the complete Autobiography, the volume contains about 100 of Franklin’s major writings—essays, journalism, letters, political tracts, scientific observations, proposals for the improvement of civic and personal life, literary bagatelles, and private musings. The selections are reprinted in their entirety and organized chronologically within six sections that represent the full range of Franklin’s temperament. The result is a zestful read for Franklin scholars and anyone wanting to know and enjoy this American icon. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author | : Library Company of Philadelphia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 1995 |
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Author | : Jerry Weinberger |
Publisher | : American Political Thought |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"Taking the Autobiography as the key to Franklin's thought, Weinberger argues that previous assessments have not yet probed to the bottom of Ben's famous irony and elusiveness. While others take the self-portrait as an elder statesman's relaxed and playful retrospection, Weinberger unveils it as the window to Franklin's deepest reflections on God, virtue, justice, equality, natural rights, love, the good life, the modern technological project, and the place and limits of reason in politics and human experience. Along the way, Weinberger explores Franklin's ribald humor, usually ignored or toned down by historians and critics, and shows it to be charming - and philosophic.".
Author | : Paul C. Pasles |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2007-11-04 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780691129563 |
Few American lives have been as celebrated--or as closely scrutinized--as that of Benjamin Franklin. Yet until now Franklin's biographers have downplayed his interest in mathematics, at best portraying it as the idle musings of a brilliant and ever-restless mind. In Benjamin Franklin's Numbers, Paul Pasles reveals a side of the iconic statesman, scientist, and writer that few Americans know--his mathematical side. In fact, Franklin indulged in many areas of mathematics, including number theory, geometry, statistics, and economics. In this generously illustrated book, Pasles gives us the first mathematical biography of Benjamin Franklin. He draws upon previously unknown sources to illustrate Franklin's genius for numbers as never before. Magic squares and circles were a lifelong fascination of Franklin's. Here, for the first time, Pasles gathers every one of these marvelous creations together in one place. He explains the mathematics behind them and Franklin's hugely popular Poor Richard's Almanac, which featured such things as population estimates and a host of mathematical digressions. Pasles even includes optional math problems that challenge readers to match wits with the bespectacled Founding Father himself. Written for a general audience, this book assumes no technical skills beyond basic arithmetic. Benjamin Franklin's Numbers is a delightful blend of biography, history, and popular mathematics. If you think you already know Franklin's story, this entertaining and richly detailed book will make you think again.
Author | : James N. Green |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"Benjamin Franklin, Writer and Printer begins by focusing on Franklin's career as a printer, from his apprenticeship to his retirement in 1748, by which time he had created the largest printing business in colonial America. His success as a printer was based not only on the newspaper and the popular almanacs be published, but also on job printing of various kinds, ranging from folio volumes of laws to paper money and blank forms." "Much of what we know about Franklin as writer and printer comes from his autobiography, the focus of the last part of this book. Left unfinished at his death in 1790, the autobiography was known to the world for nearly eighty years only in translations, fragments, paraphrases, and, in English, from retranslations of a 1791 French translation."--BOOK JACKET.