The Society for Useful Knowledge : how Benjamin Franklin and friends brought the Enlightenment to America /
The young Benjamin Franklin sought his fortune on a trip to England, but instead discovered a world of intellectual ferment in the coffeehouses and salons of London. He brought home to Philadelphia the intense hunger for knowledge that buzzed in a Europe where Newton, Bacon and Galileo had made epoc...
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Lyons, Jonathan |
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| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
New York :
Bloomsbury Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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