[Rarebooks] Ben Franklin

[Garry R Austin]

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BIBLIOTHEQUE PHYSICO-ECONMIQUE, INSTRUCTIVE ET AMUSANTE, ANNEE 1787, OU 6 ANNEE. Paris: Buisson, 1787. Two volumes. Octavo, original marbled wrappers with printed paper spine labels. I; viii, 424pp. with index. II; xxiv, 418pp. five engraved folding plates. Very good. Spine and label of volume one worn. Edges untrimmed. Rural economy, new scientific discoveries, medicine, agriculture, wine making, potato growing, cheese making, veterinary medicine and more. There are contributions by many prominent scholars and scientists of the day including Pitt, Crevecoeur, and Benjamin Franklin. Franklin contributes articles on the use of corn in feeding men and animals and another being conjectures on weather. These are not posthumous printings. The Weather piece was written in 1784. Franklin posits that "the atmosphere contained layers of warmth and cold. He hypothesized " a region high in the air over all countries, where it is always Winter". He believed that cold zone formed hail and snow and counterbalanced warmth from the sun... spoke of the "constant fog over all Europe" in the summer of 1783." (Chaplin; The First Scientific American. p304). This fog occluded Europe and brought on a early winter. Everyone was mystified except Franklin. An important article.
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