Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams and Madison by I. Bernard Cohen

Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams and Madison

I. Bernard Cohen

368 pages • first pub 1995 (view editions)

nonfiction history politics science challenging informative slow-paced
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America's founding fathers were remarkably well-rounded people, not least in their understanding of science. Thomas Jefferson was the only president who could read and understand Newton's Principia. Benjamin Franklin, in 1775, held international f...

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