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
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
Edition:First U.S. edition.
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Call Number: E162 .L96 2013
 
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