Essays of Benjamin Franklin: Moral, Social and Scientific |
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Contents
To Peter Collinson | 3 |
Electrical Experiments | 5 |
To John Lining at Charleston South Carolina | 12 |
To John Pringle | 21 |
To John Lining at Charleston | 22 |
To Oliver Neave | 28 |
To M Dubourg | 33 |
To M Dubourg | 37 |
Aureora Borealis | 70 |
An Economical Project | 77 |
To Edward Nairne of London | 84 |
To John Ingenhousz | 91 |
An Account of Toads Found Enclosed in Solid Stone | 103 |
To LAbbe Soulavie | 106 |
Propositions Relative to Privateering Communicated to Mr Oswald | 112 |
To Sir Joseph Banks | 117 |
To M Dubourg | 38 |
From M Dubourg | 42 |
To M Dubourg | 46 |
To Dr Browrigg | 49 |
An Emblem Of Human Life | 63 |
The Whistle | 66 |
MeteorologicalImaginations and Conjectures | 121 |
To David Rittenhouse | 125 |
To David Le Roy | 129 |
To James Bowdoin | 177 |
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