Eclipsing the occult in early America: Benjamin Franklin and his almanacs
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Franklin’s lifelong quest was spreading scientific knowledge to regular people. Mason Chamberlin, CC BY – By Carla J. Mulford, Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University – By the time he was 20 years old, colonial American Benjamin Franklin had already spent two years …