The Scientist as Rebel
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781590172162 (1590172167)
Publish date: November 14th 2006
Publisher: New York Review 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...