Benjamin Franklin
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific, and political efforts over a lifetime which extended over nearly the entire eighteenth century. Franklin's achievements range from inventing the lightning rod to publishing Poor Richard's Almanack to signing the Declaration of the Independence. This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions as philosophy and religion, social status, electricity, American...