Scientist as Rebel
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781615600564 (1615600566)
Publish date: November 6th 2009
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Benjamin Franklin combined better than anyone else the qualities of a great scientist and a great rebel. As a scientist, without formal education or inherited wealth, he beat the learned aristocrats of Europe at their own game...Franklin became a rebel only when he judged the time to be right and th...