Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist Product:Postcard Views of the teardrop effect

Views of the teardrop effect observed during transit as Venus is near the solar edge

Back view of no 8

Figures 1-2 from the paper 'A proposal for detecting

The subject is taken from Keats' poem of the same title

The reference to Colenso relates to Bishop Colenso of Natal whose work

Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist Product:Postcard Views of the teardrop effectBenjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist, 20th century. Franklin (1706 1790) was a member of the committee which drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Trained as a printer, first in his family's firm in Boston, and later in England, he became a notable publisher but is now better known as one of the founders of the science of electricity. Franklin became interested in the principles of electricity in 1747 and published